You might poke around in your messages file on the server and client to
see if there are any hardware errors popping up around the time this
backup is running.  I had a similar issue in that all was well except
when I attempted to move huge amounts of data.  Amanda logs were similar
to yours.  Then I happened to be downloading some large files and the
connection would freeze. I eventually caught the errors in the local
messages file and it turned out to be a bad NIC that would only fail
under heavy loads.

Hope this helps,
Jim



On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 13:07, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I have a directory with which amanda experiences timeouts problems
> after adding a *lot* of files and directories in it (something of the
> order of 500,000). How can I increase the timeout value (and which one
> is it?). I'm running Amanda 2.4.3b4-20020829 (soon to upgraded
> to 2.4.4) on an O2000 with irix-6.5.
> 
> The log tells me:
> 
> FAIL dumper bullcalf /data/nihpd/nihpd1/data 20030401 1 [data timeout]
>   sendbackup: start [bullcalf:/data/nihpd/nihpd1/data level 1]
>   sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/freeware/bin/tar
>   sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/freeware/bin/tar -f... -
>   sendbackup: info end
> 
> and the debug file for sendbackup:
> 
> sendbackup: debug 1 pid 2096793 ruid 666 euid 666: start at Tue Apr  1 
> 03:44:35 2003
> /opt/amanda/amanda1/libexec/sendbackup: version 2.4.3b4-20020829
>   parsed request as: program `GNUTAR'
>                      disk `/data/nihpd/nihpd1/data'
>                      device `/data/nihpd/nihpd1/data'
>                      level 1
>                      since 2003:4:1:1:22:58
>                      options 
> `|;auth=bsd;index;exclude-list=.amanda-gnutar-exclude-list.txt;'
> sendbackup: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536
> sendbackup: time 0.003: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.16399
> sendbackup: time 0.004: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.16400
> sendbackup: time 0.005: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.16401
> sendbackup: time 0.006: waiting for connect on 16399, then 16400, then 16401
> sendbackup: time 0.008: stream_accept: connection from 132.206.178.5.16633
> sendbackup: time 0.009: stream_accept: connection from 132.206.178.5.16634
> sendbackup: time 0.010: stream_accept: connection from 132.206.178.5.16635
> sendbackup: time 0.011: got all connections
> sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.336: doing level 1 dump as listed-incremental from 
> /opt/amanda/amanda1/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/bullcalf_data_nihpd_nihpd1_data_0 
> to 
> /opt/amanda/amanda1/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/bullcalf_data_nihpd_nihpd1_data_1.new
> sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.426: doing level 1 dump from date: 2003-04-01  
> 1:22:59 GMT
> sendbackup: Can't open exclude file 
> '/data/nihpd/nihpd1/data/.amanda-gnutar-exclude-list.txt': Permission denied
> sendbackup: time 0.542: started index creator: "/usr/freeware/bin/tar -tf - 
> 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/^\.//'"
> sendbackup: time 0.543: spawning /opt/amanda/amanda1/libexec/runtar in 
> pipeline
> sendbackup: argument list: gtar --create --file - --directory 
> /data/nihpd/nihpd1/data --one-file-system --listed-incremental 
> /opt/amanda/amanda1/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/bullcalf_data_nihpd_nihpd1_data_1.new
>  --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from 
> /tmp/amanda/sendbackup._data_nihpd_nihpd1_data.20030401034435.exclude .
> sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.546: /opt/amanda/amanda1/libexec/runtar: pid 2098589
> sendbackup: time 4347.481: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe]
> sendbackup: time 4347.481: pid 2094342 finish time Tue Apr  1 04:57:02 2003
> sendbackup: time 4347.485: 124: strange(?): sendbackup: index tee cannot 
> write [Broken pipe]
> 
> thanks,
> jf
>