On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:01:52AM -0400, LaValley, Brian E wrote:
> Can someone please help me get to the bottom of this issue?  I have Amanda
> 2.4.4p2 on a Fedora Core 3 machine which is the tape server.  It has no
> trouble backing up itself and other Linux machines.  The trouble comes with
> a Sun Solaris 8 client which never completes its estimate. I tried to keep
> increasing the etimeout value, but I am at 29600 and am wondering how far I
> should go?  Is there some other part I should be looking at? Thank you.
> 

Does gnutar follow, and backup symbolic links.  I wonder if some of these
monster estimates might be due to circular references.


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