On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:12:55PM -0500, Guy Dallaire enlightened us: > One of my DLE fails to backup correctly from time to time. It happened > twice this week. This is a bit annoying because it changes everyday > (it's an oracle cold/hot backup destination for dabase files) and I > really need to get this stuff backed up every day. This is the only > DLE exhibiting this behavior. > > I have to use anoither tape in the morning and RE-BACKUP this DLE > (Which normally works fine) > > It's not really huge. > The error I have in the amanda report is: > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > > sol /disk1/RDBMS_BACKUP lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] > It's no really huge. > > I'n using amanda 2.4.5 the tape server is centos 4.2 (RHEL 4 Clone) > and the client with the failing DLE is a sun solaris 9 box. > > Is there a timeout I can configure for this ? What might cause this ? > The client is in the DMZ, but I have FW1 rules allowing for the backup > UDP and TCP ports. >
Check the setting of your dtimeout value in amanda.conf. You might also want to check out http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2551493 if you have a firewall configured on your CentOS box. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
