Re: odd dump timeout symptoms

2005-08-16 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jon LaBadie wrote: >Search back over the list archives for details that I don't remember. Thanks :) >I think some have had this symptom when there was some sort of network >timeout setting that affected the index stream. Not certain, but I >think it was a UDP setting

Re: odd dump timeout symptoms

2005-08-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:35:46PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > I have a very large DLE, approaching 100GB, on my fileserver. The backup > server is running 2.4.5, and the fileserver is running 2.4.5b1. > > The dump on this DLE is returning the following error: > > bulkhead.b /data/home lev

RE: odd dump timeout symptoms

2005-08-16 Thread Scott R. Burns
Can the version of GNU tar you are using handle single archives of this size ? There were some older versions that used signed long internals that overflowed on me in the past and caused problems. Have you tried to tar/gzip it directly without amanda to see if that works ? Scott R. Burns NETCON T

odd dump timeout symptoms

2005-08-16 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
I have a very large DLE, approaching 100GB, on my fileserver. The backup server is running 2.4.5, and the fileserver is running 2.4.5b1. The dump on this DLE is returning the following error: bulkhead.b /data/home lev 0 FAILED [data read: Connection reset by peer] in the summary, which looks

Re: What could cause this ?

2005-08-16 Thread Guy Dallaire
em to have started flowing for this DLE. The other DLE's on the same server got backed up OK but were very small in comparison. I have looked at all the debug files on "sol" and could not find any sort of error. Where shoould I look ? On the server ? On the client ? On the server, in th

Re: What could cause this ?

2005-08-16 Thread Graeme Humphries
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: That's the result of just one busy guy maintaining the docs :-) Yeah... where's that wiki? ;)

Re: What could cause this ?

2005-08-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jon LaBadie wrote: Amazing, I was going to point Guy to "Question NNN of Chapter 17" of the new amanda docs (the FAQ), but I did not find any question about timeouts. That's the result of just one busy guy maintaining the docs :-) Stefan

Re: What could cause this ?

2005-08-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:52:21PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: > This moring in my amanda report I had: > > sol/disk1 lev 1 FAILED [mesg read: Connection timed out] > > What could be wrong ? There has been no network outage as far as I know. Amazing, I was going to point Guy to "Question

Re: HD backup strategy ?

2005-08-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:02:33PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 at 12:13pm, Jon LaBadie wrote > > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0400, FM wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > > > My ibm 35810 died and I will cost use 2 CA$ to replace it. So I > > > thing it

What could cause this ?

2005-08-16 Thread Guy Dallaire
This moring in my amanda report I had: sol/disk1 lev 1 FAILED [mesg read: Connection timed out] What could be wrong ? There has been no network outage as far as I know.

Re: HD backup strategy ?

2005-08-16 Thread Tobias Bluhm
Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/16/2005 01:02:33 PM: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 at 12:13pm, Jon LaBadie wrote > > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0400, FM wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > > > My ibm 35810 died and I will cost use 2 CA$ to replace it. So I > > > thing it's t

Re: HD backup strategy ?

2005-08-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 at 12:13pm, Jon LaBadie wrote > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0400, FM wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > My ibm 35810 died and I will cost use 2 CA$ to replace it. So I > > thing it's time to switch for HD backups. > > > > Does some of you using HD backup ? if so

Re: HD backup strategy ?

2005-08-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0400, FM wrote: > Hello everybody, > > My ibm 35810 died and I will cost use 2 CA$ to replace it. So I > thing it's time to switch for HD backups. > > Does some of you using HD backup ? if so what is you stategy ? > How you take backup off-site ? > > What

Re: HD backup strategy ?

2005-08-16 Thread Bernhard Ott
FM wrote: > Hello everybody, > > My ibm 35810 died and I will cost use 2 CA$ to replace it. So I > thing it's time to switch for HD backups. > > Does some of you using HD backup ? if so what is you stategy ? > How you take backup off-site ? > > What kind of hardware are you using ? SCSI or S

Estimate timeout issue

2005-08-16 Thread LaValley, Brian E
I have an AMANDA client machine with Solaris 8 and logical volumes on a disk. The AMANDA server's config has etimeout=29600 so it waits 59202 seconds and fails. planner: time 59202.106: error result for host coneng disk /dev/vx/dsk/opt: Estimate timeout from coneng planner: time 59202.108: error