Jobst,

if your data grows you may actually run into an estimate timeout
after a long period of success, I did just the other day, had a
20 minute timeout and checking the /tmp/amanda logs on the client
I found that the estimate didn't finish for nearly 23 minutes.

I'm not saying you had the same problem I did, but the log files
on the client are a great place to confirm or disprove.

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:48:19AM +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> All over sudden I get a "data timeout", e.g.:
> 
>   ...
>   ...
>   adminserver /var lev 0 FAILED [data timeout]
>   adminserver /home lev 3 FAILED [data timeout]
>   ...
>   ...
> 
> I havent changed a thing on the machines involved for
> a while (I work on the basic principle "if aint broken, dont fix")
> 
> 
> Now I have searched the net and found a few pointers,
> but all those I found do not help:
> 
>  * I do not use compression (I use hardware compression)
> 
>  * its NOT backing up another host, its the LOCAL machine
>    backing up itself, and I have never had any problems with this
> 
>  * the dtimeout already is 1800
> 
>  * since the last reboot of the machine I have done
>    lots of successfull backups.
> 
>  * I havent installed anything new for a while on that machine.
> 
>  * I havent hanged anything (xinet, hosts.allow, .amandahost, directories,
>    amanda, whatever).
>    
> 
> Looking at the "sendbackup.XXXX.debug I can see the following message:
> 
>   ...
>   index tee cannot write [Broken pipe]
>   ...
> 
> The index file for the latest ones are missing, that is correct.
> 
> 
> I checked all the permissions on the "amanda" based directories, and they
> look fine to me.
> 
> 
> What can be the cause for the errors popping up?
> 
> 
> 
> jobst
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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