On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:04:23PM -0500, Brian G. Peterson wrote:

> amandates botch: hda6 lev 0: new dumpdate 1056177662 old 1056177943
> sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.022: doing level 0 dump from date: 1970-01-01
> 0:00:00 GMT
> sendbackup: time 0.024: spawning /usr/lib/amanda/runtar in pipeline
> sendbackup: argument list: gtar --create --file - --directory
> /home --one-file-system --listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-li
> sts/ethos.braverock.comhdb1_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --e
> xclude-from /tmp/amanda/sendbackup.hdb1.20030623143153.e
> xclude .
> sendbackup: time 0.030: started index creator: "/bin/tar -tf - 2>/dev/null |
> sed -e 's/^\.//'"
> sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.031: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 6585
> sendbackup: time 7330.016: 126: strange(?): sed: couldn't write 76 items to
> {standard output}: Connection timed out
> sendbackup: time 8298.064: index tee cannot write [Connection timed out]

gtar takes a long time to finish the first pass (checking directories
against listed incremental file).
My guess is that the tcp connections are timed out on the iptables firewall.

You can check this by putting some small and really small directories into
your disklist. Please add e.g. /etc, /bin and /lib to your disklist
and check if those can be backed up.

Please make sure, all of your filtering is logging discarded packets.

  Ciao
    Dietmar

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