On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:38:34AM -0800, Paul Yeatman enlightened us: > ->>In response to your message<<- > --received from Paul Bijnens-- > > > > Paul Yeatman wrote: > > > > > >There is a firewall on both sides but I have had the client side > > >firewall off for the purpose of this test and the server side firewall > > >isn't blocking any outbound activity. > > > > > >Possibly as best evidence (as mentioned in my original post and I feel > > >bad that in my last reply I didn't include my original post and all > > >replies), I have made one successful backup of this client using this > > >config but only when trying to backup less than the full partition. In > > >the successful case, it was a 3G directory. Yet every time I've tried > > >to back up the full partition (17G), I can't get past a successful > > >estimate even when increasing the etimeout from 900s to 2600s. I would > > >conclude from the successful case that the firewall is not > > >interferring. > > > > I think the firewall is the cullprit. > > The server sends a UDP packet with the request for the estimate. > > When finished the client sends a reply UDP back. > > But by that time the firewall does not relate the reply to the request > > and drops or denies the packet. And hence the client does not receive > > an ACK and retries 3 times to send the reply and gives up. > > Hmmmm. Well, that would be easy enough to test but would this explain > how the smaller backup of the same client/config succeeded? >
Yes, because it doesn't take as long to generate a backup of 3GB than it does to backup 17. See http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2555136 and try the udp settings there. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
