On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 01:41:01PM -0400, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:
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> Hello amanda-users,
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> I'm still working at this :-(
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> I have the amanda server installed on a dedicated server.  I'm trying to
> backup a filesystem on one of my clients.
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> I keep getting a data timeout on this client, and the filesystem does
> not get backed up.
> 
> The filesystem in question has about 26 gig of data, in about 2.5
> million files.
> 
> The funny thing is that even though amdump reports a data timeout, I can
> see gtar still running on my client  I can also see sendbackup still
> running.  The active gtar is taking up nearly 97 meg of memory at the
> time that amdump fails.
> 
> 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.

Might those other file systems be on the same disk drive and be getting
dumped at the same time, thus causing a lot of contention for the drive
and slowing down the individual dumps.  This is the situation that the
optional "spindle" number in the disklist is meant to avoid.

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Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
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