Greetings; X86 machines, all capable of 64 bit operations, running 3.3.7p1 here, and whatever is in the wheezy repo's on the other 3 machines.
One of my machines crashed after I had left the area last night, a hard enough crash that I had to pull the power cord to get it to reboot when I plugged it back in about 6:30 this morning. Unfortunatly the amanda backup session is incapable to watching that failure so it can restart the backup session of that machine when it reappears on the network. It seems to me that amanda should be polling the machine so it can achieve the backup instead of sitting there like a silent patient spider until the timeouts fire and force it to give up. But while I've been using amanda since 1998, I still have no clue where to point the finger of blame. Amanda, tar, xinetd, whatever. So I am going to reduce that timeout by a good 3 hours as it seems to make this machine, the server, lag a bit until I finally get the email about the failure. Any other good ideas for the next release that might fix that? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
