request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

hello list,

i made a fresh install of "Amanda 2.5.0b2" on a debian 3.1 system. theni set up amanda for a hourly backup.i did some test backups that worked ok. then i mentioned an error inthe amanda.conf and aborted the dumpmanually. stopped all amanda processes on the client manually andcorrected the error. since then i get lots of"(aborted:[request failed: timeout waiting for ACK])(too many dumperretry)" when doing backups:


amanda@amanda:~$ amstatus hourly

Using /usr/local/etc/amanda/hourly/amdump.1 from Tue Feb 21 09:22:36CET 2006

pille.hq.imos.net:/ 0 driver: (aborted:[request failed: timeoutwaiting for ACK])(too many dumper retry)pille.hq.imos.net:/opt 0 driver: (aborted:[request failed: timeoutwaiting for ACK])(too many dumper retry)pille.hq.imos.net:/usr 0 driver: (aborted:[request failed: timeoutwaiting for ACK])(too many dumper retry)

pille.hq.imos.net:/var 1       45m finished (9:28:16)

SUMMARY          part      real  estimated
                           size       size
partition       :   4
estimated       :   4                55036m
flush           :   0         0m
failed          :   3                55015m           ( 99.96%)
wait for dumping:   0                    0m           (  0.00%)
dumping to tape :   0                    0m           (  0.00%)
dumping         :   0         0m         0m (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
dumped          :   1        45m        20m (220.31%) (  0.08%)
wait for writing:   0         0m         0m (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
wait to flush   :   0         0m         0m (100.00%) (  0.00%)
writing to tape :   0         0m         0m (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
failed to tape  :   0         0m         0m (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
taped           :   1        45m        20m (220.31%) (  0.08%)
  tape 1        :   1        45m        20m (  0.04%) hourly009
6 dumpers idle  : no-dumpers
taper idle
network free kps:     14000
holding space   :    258607m (100.00%)
chunker0 busy   :  0:00:00  (  0.00%)
 dumper0 busy   :  0:03:10  ( 36.36%)
   taper busy   :  0:00:02  (  0.55%)

0 dumpers busy : 0:08:37 ( 98.82%) not-idle: 0:05:31 (64.11%)client-constrained: 0:02:01 (23.49%)start-wait: 0:00:34 (6.57%)no-dumpers: 0:00:30 (5.83%)1 dumper busy : 0:00:05 ( 1.05%) start-wait: 0:00:05 (99.46%)

i already rebooted the amanda server and cant find any more processesrunning on the client. also did a restart of

inetd on the client.

does anyone have a clue whats the problem ? os what this abort messagemeans ?


thanks and by
Stefan Herrmann