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Re: sendbackup timeout

2003-04-02 09:11:04
Subject: Re: sendbackup timeout
From: Jean-Francois Malouin <Jean-Francois.Malouin AT bic.mni.mcgill DOT ca>
To: AMANDA users <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 07:38:19 -0500
Hi,

* Dietmar Goldbeck (dietmar.goldbeck AT neteligent DOT de) [20030402 02:59] 
thus spake:
> 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.

Feeling quite stupid now as I went through this 
and somehow I didn't see it (insert more coffee here).

> > 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.

thanks for the tips!

jf

>  
>    Ciao
>       Dietmar
> 
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