An update:
Been working this since the original email - backups are everything, you
know. Thanks in part to Mr. John Hein and Bill Nolf (a guy here where I
work), I decided to run the same backup scheme using ufsdump, and that
seems to have corrected the problem. Note that I am using 2.5.0p2. For
versions above that, Kevin Till tells us that bsdtcp auth is now tcp
exclusively. This negates any udp socket size issues I might be having,
I'd imagine.
I originally used gtar (v1.13). Although I've not been able to confirm
it yet, I suspect there is a socket size issue with udp. Once I can
safely say my backups are operational, I can test this theory. I don't
have a test bench, so testing at leisure is not possible.
John Hein's note stated:
Sounds similar to the issue I saw in the past when I started backing
up lots of data. This was on FreeBSD, but it turned out that the udp
socket was not using it's max size.
See these messages and patch:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.devel/1148/match=message+long
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.devel/1152/match=message+long
Best to all,
Sean
-------- Original Message ----------
Hi all,
My first post here. I have perused all resources I know of to answer
this question, but results have been very limited. Forgive me if this
question has been posed and answer prior, but I cannot find the answer.
My issue is a sendsize timeout error. When it happens, amstatus shows
the final filesystem as "getting estimate", and it'll hang there for
days. The only error comes out of the amandad.xxx log (in /tmp/amanda),
and it is:
amandad: time 21599.605: /usr/local/libexec/sendsize timed out waiting
for REP data
amandad: time 21599.605: sending NAK pkt:
<<<<<
ERROR timeout on reply pipe
amandad: time 21605.615: pid 17898 finish time Thu Jan 4 20:40:06 2007
That's it. All other logs basically say OK to everything. Does anyone
know anything about this? Is this something that has been seen before?
My environment is:
Two servers, one is the Amanda server, and one is the Amanda client.
Workstations are not backed up.
Attached to the Amanda server is an Apple X-Serve RAID, RAID 5, and
largest partitions are 250GB ea.
The greatest amount of data on a single partition is 100GB
Note that the failure only began when I installed the Apple X-Serve
RAID, and began using very large partitions. I am leaning toward an
issue with gtar trying to calculate backup size on 100+GB worth of data.
Amanda Server:
SunFire V240
Solari 8 (patched to 02/06)
Amanda 2.5.0 (presently - error exists up to 2.5.1p2)
gtar (dumper in use) is version 1.13.1
Dumptype uses:
GNUTAR
compress server fast (client fast for client dumptype)
holdingdisk yes
Presently, I am testing this config because of what I think may be a
gtar issue. As yet I have no data:
Dumptype:
<same as above except>
compress none
estimate calcsize
Anything anyone can contribute to this issue will be greatly appreciated.
Sean
Sean Connors
Systems Administrator
ArgonST
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