>I would first take a look in /tmp/amanda/sendbackup.*debug on the
>client and find out how long actually it does take to do the backup
>of those filesystems. Then set "dtimeout" accordingly.
>

This is the file:

sendbackup: debug 1 pid 28647 ruid 33 euid 33 start time Mon Mar 22 04:02:35 
2004
/usr/lib/amanda/sendbackup: version 2.4.2p2
sendbackup: got input request: GNUTAR /var 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;
  parsed request as: program `GNUTAR'
                     disk `/var'
                     lev 0
                     since 1970:1:1:0:0:0
                     opt `|;bsd-auth;'
sendbackup: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536
sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.37822
sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.37823
  waiting for connect on 37822, then 37823
sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 127.0.0.1.37824
sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 127.0.0.1.37825
  got all connections
sendbackup-gnutar: doing level 0 dump as listed-incremental to 
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/whitehat_var_0.new
sendbackup-gnutar: doing level 0 dump from date: 1970-01-01  0:00:00 GMT
sendbackup: spawning /usr/lib/amanda/runtar in pipeline
sendbackup: argument list: gtar --create --file - --directory /var 
--one-file-system --listed-incremental 
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/whitehat_var_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read 
--totals .
sendbackup-gnutar: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 28648


I can't see a time anywhere?

Gavin.