Something has changed in amanda. I have been running amanda on this lan for several years. For the most part, DLE's have been constant for at least six months. I have six linux servers, all running debian. Regarding amanda-server, my records show that I upgraded amanda to version:
2.4.5 on 16JUN05 Everything was backing up, and restoring, to my satisfaction, until last week. At that time, two servers (brono & jord) were terribly old, regarding kernel and debian os. So, I upgraded via aptitude, which also upgraded amanda-client to version: 2.5.0 Since that time, many -- but, NOT all -- DLE's on brono and jord are FAIL'ing, e.g.: brono /var lev 0 FAILED [missing result for /var in brono response] jord /var lev 0 FAILED [missing result for /var in jord response] Yes, both of these servers have many DLE's; but, as stated above, this HAS been working without incident at the older version. Numbers of DLE's: brono 137 jord 219 At first, I thought that this maybe conflict between amanda-server and amanda-client versions; so, I upgraded amanda-server: 2.5.0 on 23MAY06 NO difference. So, I searched these archives, and I googled. All I found was this URL: <http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amdump:_results_missing> amanda.conf has never had `etimeout' configured. Yesterday, I set it: etimeout 600 NO difference. Remember, this exact same configuration has been working WITHOUT incident at older version for eleven months! This is NOT a firewall issue, since this is only for my internal lan. Regarding maximum udp datagram size: net.inet.udp.maxdgram=63535 Apparently, sysctl on linux/debian does NOT support this. I have pinged debian-user on this issue; but, there has been NO response. I do NOT know what the current, default size is; nor do I know how to change it. I prefer NOT to combine DLE's; which will pose other challenges, not the least of which is DLE larger than tape. These DLE's are very dynamic. I cannot predict when a particular DLE will contain enormous data; and the nature of this dynamic data is already compressed ... What am I missing? This used to work; then, it b0rk; and the only change was a newer amanda version. What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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