Hi all - I was wondering if anyone else had seen this problem and found a 
resolution. We switched some of our storage servers to RHEL 7 and XFS file 
systems recently and since then I am having some problems with the backups. My 
main issue is that backups fill fail with errors such as:

 xxx.eecs.utk.edu <http://fs2.eecs.utk.edu/> /export/home/students/2 lev 1  
FAILED [too many dumper retry: [request failed: EOF on read from 
xxx.eecs.utk.edu <http://fs2.eecs.utk.edu/>]]

This doesn’t happen to every DLE every time but some of them almost every 
single time. Some file systems on the same server will back up fine, but there 
shouldn’t be any functional difference. The logs haven’t yielded much 
information. It looks like the send size tar processes work fine but when it 
comes to actual backups, I get this sort of time out. All the connections are 
via SSH. When a DLE fails, it generally leaves a zero-length file in the 
holding disk. 

The error shows up in the dumper logs as:

Tue Feb 10 21:30:17 2015: thd-0x12426f0: dumper: 
security_seterror(handle=0x127b570, driver=0x37afe60500 (SSH) error=EOF on read 
from xxx.eecs.utk.edu)
Tue Feb 10 21:30:17 2015: thd-0x12426f0: dumper: 
security_close(handle=0x127b570, driver=0x37afe60500 (SSH))

I cannot find anything useful in the logs on the backup client. Both server and 
client are on amanda 3.3.6. I’ve tried increasing the value for "req-tries” but 
that hasn’t helped.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Markus
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Markus A. Iturriaga Woelfel, IT Administrator
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Tennessee
Min H. Kao Building, Suite 424 / 1520 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-2250
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