On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 01:41:01PM -0400, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:

> I have dtimeout set to 7200.
> 
> The client is a dual cpu P4, running at 866 Mhz each, with 1 gig of
> memory.  It is running RedHat 7.1.
> 
> Both systems are running Amanda 2.4.4p1
> 
> There are no IP filters on either system.  I can successfully back up
> smaller filesystems on the client.
> 
> I have trouble believing that two hours can go by without gtar sending
> ANY traffic to the server.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 

Please try with a larger dtimeout value.  Amanda uses GNUtar in listed
incremental mode and this does a full scan of all inode informations
_before_ the first byte comes out.

IIRC a full scan of my RAID5 at home takes about half an hour. (20GB,
1 million files)

So yours seems to be slow. What kind of hardware are you running?  

If you have a RAID array, please check your disks. My RAID5 was
awfully slow with Amanda with one failed disk.

 Ciao
     Dietmar

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