On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:

> Nicolas Ecarnot a �crit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently had this kind of problem with my amanda server. It has to
> > backup around 120 samba clients :
> >
> > GETTING ESTIMATES...
> > planner: time 0.371: dgram_send_addr: sendto(192.168.10.66.10080)
> > failed: Message too long
> > send req failed: Message too long
>
> I'm sorry to insist but this problem is really blocking me and I don't
> really know what to do to solve it.
>
> I read in the faq that this may be due to an UDP packet size problem.
> The suggested workaround is to shorten the names used in the directories
> to save.
> Unfortunately, I'm backing up many samba clients, and their names can't
> be all changed, and I have no way to create symbolic links or that knid
> of things.
>
> In my disklist, I have 120 lines like this :
> backup.foo.com //winHost001/share nocomp-user-gnutar
>
> * I don't know HOW I could shorten this ?

The other way to work around this problem is to employ multiple smbclient
machines.  So run some samba clients through backup.foo.com and some
other samba clients through backup2.foo.com, etc.

-Mitch