On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:07:11PM -0500, 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.
> 

from man amanda:

       dtimeout int
              Default:  1800  seconds.   Amount  of idle time per
              disk on a given client that a dumper  running  from
              within amdump will wait before it fails with a data
              timeout error.

       etimeout int
              Default: 300 seconds.  Amount of time per disk on a
              given  client  that the planner step of amdump will
              wait to get the dump size estimates.  For instance,
              with  the  default of 300 seconds and four disks on
              client A, planner will wait up to  20  minutes  for
              that machine.  A negative value will be interpreted
              as a total amount of time, instead  of  a  per-disk
              value.

> 
> and the debug file for sendbackup:

> sendbackup: Can't open exclude file 
> '/data/nihpd/nihpd1/data/.amanda-gnutar-exclude-list.txt': Permission denied
                                       
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Please check permissions for your backup user.
 
   Ciao
      Dietmar

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