On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 at 1:19pm, Jon LaBadie wrote > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:01:52AM -0400, LaValley, Brian E wrote: > > Can someone please help me get to the bottom of this issue? I have Amanda > > 2.4.4p2 on a Fedora Core 3 machine which is the tape server. It has no > > trouble backing up itself and other Linux machines. The trouble comes with > > a Sun Solaris 8 client which never completes its estimate. I tried to keep > > increasing the etimeout value, but I am at 29600 and am wondering how far I > > should go? Is there some other part I should be looking at? Thank you. > > > Does gnutar follow, and backup symbolic links. I wonder if some of these > monster estimates might be due to circular references.
I'm fairly certain it backs them up as links, not as the targest themselves. It'd be easy to test, though... -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
