Howdy,

I've run into a problem that doesn't seem to show up anywhere in the
amanda archives (which means its unique, which I doubt, or that I'm
missing something really simple, which is more likely the case).

I've installed amanda-2.4.4 on RedHat 7.2 and have been successful in
being able to dump (or tar) to the holding disk, and then have the holding
disk dump to tape (DLT 40Gb tapes).  However, if I hit a partition/disk
that's bigger than my holding disk, it will not dump to tape directly.
I've closed down my configuration to just include a partition local to the
server.  If the holding disk is larger than the partition (for a level 0)
then things are great.   If my partition's too big for it, I'll get the
following:

----  Begin  amdump.1 snippet -----

DUMP tecopa.sf.apexion.com fffffeff9ffe0f /usr 20030407 8 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0
1136481 158
--------
driver: adding holding disk 0 dir /home/amanda/holdingdisk size 1024000
reserving 1024000 out of 1024000 for degraded-mode dumps
driver: start time 2.034 inparallel 4 bandwidth 2000 diskspace 1024000 dir
OBSOLETE datestamp 20030407 driver: drain-ends tapeq FIRST big-dumpers
sssS
changer: got exit: 0 str: 3 99 1
changer_query: changer return was 99 1
changer_query: searchable = 0
changer_find: looking for dailies1 changer is searchable = 0
changer: opening pipe to: /usr/local/libexec/chg-manual -slot current
changer: got exit: 0 str: 3 /dev/nst0
taper: slot 3: date 20030407 label dailies1 (exact label match)
taper: read label `dailies1' date `20030407'
taper: wrote label `dailies1' date `20030407'
driver: result time 19.458 from taper: TAPER-OK
driver: dumping tecopa.sf.apexion.com:/usr directly to tape
driver: send-cmd time 19.459 to taper: PORT-WRITE 00-00001
tecopa.sf.apexion.com fffffeff9ffe0f /usr 0 20030407
taper: try_socksize: receive buffer size is 65536
taper: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.32810
driver: result time 19.459 from taper: PORT 32810
driver: send-cmd time 19.459 to dumper0: PORT-DUMP 01-00002 32810
tecopa.sf.apexion.com fffffeff9ffe0f /usr NODEVICE 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 DUMP
|;auth=bsd;
driver: state time 19.459 free kps: -5192 space: 1024000 taper: writing
idle-dumpers: 3 qlen tapeq: 0 runq: 0 roomq: 0 wakeup: 86400 driver-idle:
not-idle
driver: interface-state time 19.459 if : free 600 if LE0: free 400 if
LOCAL: free -6192
driver: hdisk-state time 19.459 hdisk 0: free 1024000 dumpers 0
taper: stream_accept: timeout after 120 seconds
dumper: stream_client: connect to 127.0.0.1.32810 failed: Connection timed
out
driver: result time 208.459 from dumper0: FAILED 01-00002 [taper port
open: Connection timed out]
driver: result time 208.460 from taper: TAPE-ERROR 00-00001 [port connect
timeout]
dump of driver schedule before start degraded mode:
--------
--------
dump of driver schedule after start degraded mode:
--------
--------
driver: state time 208.461 free kps: 2000 space: 1024000 taper: DOWN
idle-dumpers: 4 qlen tapeq: 0 runq: 0 roomq: 0 wakeup: 86400 driver-idle:
not-idle
driver: interface-state time 208.461 if : free 600 if LE0: free 400 if
LOCAL: free 1000
driver: hdisk-state time 208.461 hdisk 0: free 1024000 dumpers 0

--------- end of /var/amanda/dailies/amdump.1 snippet -------

Can anyone shed some light as to why I'm seeing this bit:

taper: stream_accept: timeout after 120 seconds
dumper: stream_client: connect to 127.0.0.1.32810 failed: Connection timed
out
driver: result time 208.459 from dumper0: FAILED 01-00002 [taper port
open: Connection timed out]
driver: result time 208.460 from taper: TAPE-ERROR 00-00001 [port connect
timeout]


If I dump from the holding disk, there is no timeout and things 'tape'
fine.   I can also 'tape' partitions over the network to the amanda server
as long as the partition's smaller than the holding disk.  So this timeout
message is real puzzling, and I'm not seeing anything on it in the
amanda-users archives.

Can anyone toss out some ideas?

Thanks!

Chris

ps.  Here's some info from my amanda.conf just in case:

etimeout 1200           # number of seconds per filesystem for estimates.
#etimeout -600          # total number of seconds for estimates.
# a positive number will be multiplied by the number of filesystems on
# each host; a negative number will be taken as an absolute total
time-out.
# The default is 5 minutes per filesystem.

dtimeout 3600           # number of idle seconds before a dump is aborted.
 ---
runtapes 1              # number of tapes to be used in a single run of
amdump
tpchanger "chg-manual"  # the tape-changer glue script
tapedev "/dev/nst0"     # the no-rewind tape device to be used
#rawtapedev "/dev/null" # the raw device to be used (ftape only)
rawtapedev "/dev/nst0"  # the raw device to be used (ftape only)
changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/dailies/changer"
#changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/dailies/changer-status"
#changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/dailies/changer.conf"
#changerdev "/dev/null"
changerdev "/dev/nst0"

maxdumpsize -1          # Maximum number of bytes the planner will
schedule
                        # for a run (default: runtapes * tape_length).
tapetype DLT-80         # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below)

----- end of amanda.conf snippet ----

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