Charles Stroom: Have you tried making "etimeout" a bigger number, in the amanda.conf file?
As the disk space gets more and more full, the time to do the estimate grows. I've got etimeout set to 2000 because of a really large disk in my past. Don't know if I still need it, but it hasn't hurt anything. Deb Baddorf On Dec 5, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Charles Stroom wrote: > I hope somebody can help me. Since already some time, most backups > fail, mostly on one item "/usr" with the message that the estimate > timed out. Only once in a while (1 out of 10), this failure does not > occur and the backup completes normally. This sounds to me that in > principal all conf files are ok, but somewhere it still goes wrong. > > I am running amanda for years now, and I have not kept all log files, > but the problem, in my remembrance, started to appear many months ago > but because from time to time, everything goes well, it did not bother > me too much. But recently, a few more timeouts occur on other DLEs (if > that is the name?), even on /usr/local, which is only 200Mb in total! > I have doubled the etimeout variable 3 times (etimeout is now 4800), > but that does not help. > > Amanda produces many log files and I miss the expertise to understand > them really. I attach the short log file which comes at the end of a > backup (which has incidentally more timeouts as usual). Any ideas are > welcome. > > Regards, Charles > > > ================================= > Return-Path: <[email protected]> > X-Original-To: root > Delivered-To: [email protected] > Received: by fiume.localnet (Postfix, from userid 1002) > id 5398642C; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:09:04 +0100 (CET) > Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:09:03 +0100 > To: [email protected] > Subject: daily_backup FAIL: AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR November 29, 2012 > User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.2 01/07/07 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Message-Id: <[email protected]> > From: [email protected] (Amanda) > > Hostname: fiume > Org : daily_backup > Config : daily_dds4 > Date : November 29, 2012 > > These dumps were to tape dds4-01. > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: dds4-02. > FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: > planner: ERROR fiume.localnet NAK: timeout on reply pipe > fiume.localnet /home lev 0 FAILED [disk /home, all estimate timed > out] fiume.localnet /usr lev 0 FAILED [disk /usr, all estimate timed > out] fiume.localnet /usr/local lev 0 FAILED [disk /usr/local, all > estimate timed out] fiume.localnet /var lev 0 FAILED [disk /var, all > estimate timed out] > > > > STATISTICS: > Total Full Incr. Level:# > -------- -------- -------- -------- > Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:02 > Run Time (hrs:min) 0:32 > Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:15 0:15 0:00 > Output Size (meg) 2815.2 2784.6 30.6 > Original Size (meg) 5644.0 5613.4 30.6 > Avg Compressed Size (%) 49.9 49.6 100.0 > DLEs Dumped 9 6 3 1:3 > Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 3244.3 3274.1 1775.4 > > Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:21 0:21 0:00 > Tape Size (meg) 2815.2 2784.6 30.6 > Tape Used (%) 15.2 15.0 0.2 > DLEs Taped 9 6 3 1:3 > Parts Taped 9 6 3 1:3 > Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 2295.2 2308.9 1491.9 > > USAGE BY TAPE: > Label Time Size % DLEs Parts > dds4-01 0:21 2882760K 15.2 9 9 > > NOTES: > planner: disk fiume.localnet:/var, estimate of level 0 timed out. > planner: disk fiume.localnet:/var, estimate of level 1 timed out. > planner: disk fiume.localnet:/usr/local, estimate of level 0 timed > out. planner: disk fiume.localnet:/usr/local, estimate of level 1 timed > out. planner: disk fiume.localnet:/usr, estimate of level 0 timed out. > planner: disk fiume.localnet:/usr, estimate of level 1 timed out. > planner: disk fiume.localnet:/home, estimate of level 0 timed out. > planner: disk fiume.localnet:/home, estimate of level 1 timed out. > planner: Full dump of fiume.localnet:/home/charles/.VirtualBox > promoted from 3 days ahead. planner: Full dump of fiume.localnet:/ > promoted from 3 days ahead. planner: Full dump of stremen.localnet:/var > promoted from 3 days ahead. planner: Full dump of stremen.localnet:/ > promoted from 3 days ahead. planner: Full dump of fiume.localnet:/opt > promoted from 3 days ahead. planner: Full dump of > fiume.localnet:/home/charles/Documents promoted from 3 days ahead. > taper: tape dds4-01 kb 2882763 fm 9 [OK] > > > DUMP SUMMARY: > DUMPER STATS TAPER > STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s > MMM:SS KB/s -------------------------- > ------------------------------------- ------------- > fiume.localn / 0 249010 119314 47.9 0:46 2598.0 0:51 > 2339.5 fiume.localn /home FAILED > fiume.localn -VirtualBox 0 1534120 1019294 66.4 2:25 7043.1 7:22 > 2306.1 fiume.localn -/Documents 0 100190 43137 43.1 0:11 > 3839.9 0:19 2270.4 fiume.localn -s/pictures 1 31180 31180 > -- 0:11 2951.3 0:13 2398.5 fiume.localn -anon_800IS 1 150 > 150 -- 0:07 22.6 0:04 37.5 fiume.localn -arles/vbox 1 > 10 1 10.0 0:00 2.3 0:04 0.0 fiume.localn /opt > 0 785940 320516 40.8 1:07 4773.1 2:19 2305.9 > fiume.localn /usr FAILED > fiume.localn /usr/local FAILED > fiume.localn /var FAILED > stremen.loca / 0 2654430 1125385 42.4 8:37 2175.4 8:07 > 2310.9 stremen.loca /var 0 424430 223784 52.7 1:25 > 2646.1 1:37 2307.1 > > (brought to you by Amanda version 3.2.2) > > > -- > Charles Stroom > email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.")
