On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:45:21AM -0400, LaValley, Brian E enlightened us:
> My backup is failing.  It worked a couple days ago.  It reports a data
> timeout.  I have pasted the sendbackup debug file at the end. It warns of
> the index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] What should I be looking into for
> this problem? Thank you.
>

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> sendbackup: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536
> sendbackup: time 0.000: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.34046
> sendbackup: time 0.000: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.34047
> sendbackup: time 0.000: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.34048
> sendbackup: time 0.000: waiting for connect on 34046, then 34047, then 34048
> sendbackup: time 0.004: stream_accept: connection from 198.151.154.15.34049
> sendbackup: time 0.004: stream_accept: connection from 198.151.154.15.34050
> sendbackup: time 0.004: stream_accept: connection from 198.151.154.15.34051
> sendbackup: time 0.004: got all connections
> sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.809: doing level 1 dump as listed-incremental from
> /opt/amanda/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/blavalley-l_home_0 to
> /opt/amanda/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/blavalley-l_home_1.new
> sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.925: doing level 1 dump from date: 2005-08-02
> 1:17:56 GMT
> sendbackup: time 0.941: started index creator: "/bin/gtar -tf - 2>/dev/null
> | sed -e 's/^\.//'"
> sendbackup: time 0.941: spawning /opt/amanda/libexec/runtar in pipeline
> sendbackup: argument list: gtar --create --file - --directory /home
> --one-file-system --listed-incremental
> /opt/amanda/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/blavalley-l_home_1.new --sparse
> --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from
> /tmp/amanda/sendbackup._home.20050804100523.exclude .
> sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.942: /opt/amanda/libexec/runtar: pid 22766
> sendbackup: time 1831.269: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe]
> sendbackup: time 1831.270: 124: strange(?): sendbackup: index tee cannot
> write [Broken pipe]
> sendbackup: time 1831.285: pid 22764 finish time Thu Aug  4 10:35:53 2005

Looks like you're hitting a timeout at about 1800 seconds. You might try
increasing your dtimeout option in amanda.conf. You should be able to look
at the log files on the client to see how long it took to complete the
backup and adjust dtimeout accordingly

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Matt Hyclak
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