Amanda-Users

Re: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

2005-11-02 07:43:03
Subject: Re: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server
From: Alexander Jolk <alexj AT buf DOT com>
To: Sebastian Kösters <skoesters AT sino DOT de>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:36:16 +0100
Sebastian Kösters wrote:
It failes only doing amdump config

Would you happen to have a relevant error message to show from your amdump report?

Amandad on client
[...]
amandad: time 0.000: got packet:
--------
Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 000-E0426409 SEQ 1130912894
SECURITY USER amanda
SERVICE sendsize
OPTIONS features=fffffeff9ffe0f;maxdumps=1;hostname=pst;
GNUTAR /pst 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;compress-fast;index;
[...]
amandad: time 3428.573: sending REP packet:
----
Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 000-E0426409 SEQ 1130912894
OPTIONS features=fffffeff9f00;
/pst 0 SIZE 84404220
----

amandad: time 3438.570: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
amandad: time 3438.570: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying

Sounds like a simple estimate timeout to me, 3500s for one partition is quite long. Bump up your etimeout in amanda.conf to something like 5000s and see whether that works. Or try to find out why estimate on the pst:/pst takes so long, and do something about that. You might for instance split it up in smaller chunks. Or switch to server side estimates which are instant.

You should have got a clear message in amdump's report though, saying `estimate timeout', which is english for `estimate timeout'.

Alex

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