All,

I am replying to my own email cause I fixed it ...
however, I am not sure whether this is a bug!

I tried a lot of things to find the problem ... until I did
a "mount" to display the mounted devices. I just wanted
to see whether a USB HD (which I use for the ODD backup of the
system and this thing is BIG) is mounted.

I saw that a WINDOWS workstation which I had mounted
(to check the size of a partition and the used filespace)
was still mounted ... (the amanda host is a samba host too).

Further I saw lots of thesew messages in the logs
  ...
  smb_add_request: request [3d6a9e00, mid=1646] timed out
  ...

I umounted the windows workstation partition and everything 
is fine now ...


What I find strange:

 * If I have a drive mounted from a UNIX box and the
   the Unix workstation is now turned off it doesnt matter,
   this does NOT affect amanda.

 * The windows workstation in question is NOT part
   of the disklist (I do not backup any windows boxen)
   and I do not have any windows based servers.

 * all machines backed up by Amanda are UNIX based.


So how can a windows workstation that has one of its partition 
mounted and is now turned of affect Amanda although
the workstation is not part of the daily backup routine????



jobst













On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:48:19AM +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach (jobst AT 
barrett.com DOT au) 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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> 
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  | | |0|   Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L
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