On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:38 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> > I have recently added a set of disks (file systems) to my back-up set
> > and that ended up with a failure due to "data timeout". I didn't even
> > know there was a dtimeout value to be specified in amanda.conf. I have
> > learnt that it is an idle time measured against the disks in question.
> > 
> > My question is now, how is this idle time measured and where is it
> > reported? 
> > 
> > Only by knowing what amanda sees of the idle time am I able to specify a
> > reasonable dtimeout value.
> 
> I may be totally wrong here, but I don't think it is tracking "idle" time.
> I believe it is total time to dump.  This would take care of "stuck" or
> "runaway" dump scenarios.

The documentation says: 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.

> 
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Regards,
Erik P. Olsen