Ive started having some of my systems routinely timeut, rather than getting
good backups. See this report:


FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  teddy      hda2 lev 0 FAILED [data read: Operation timed out]
  smokey     hda2 lev 1 FAILED [data read: Operation timed out]


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:14
Run Time (hrs:min)         3:38
Dump Time (hrs:min)        6:05       5:47       0:19
Output Size (meg)       11330.3    11064.7      265.5
Original Size (meg)     17373.8    16186.8     1186.9
Avg Compressed Size (%)    65.2       68.4       22.2   (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped           23         12         11   (1:9 2:1 5:1)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)       529.1      544.6      242.3

Tape Time (hrs:min)        2:16       2:12       0:03
Tape Size (meg)         11330.6    11064.9      265.7
Tape Used (%)              58.0       56.6        1.4   (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Taped            23         12         11   (1:9 2:1 5:1)
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)  1424.8     1427.7     1313.9

USAGE BY TAPE:
  Label             Time      Size      %    Nb
  DailyDump04       2:16   11330.6   58.0    23


FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:

/-- teddy      hda2 lev 0 FAILED [data read: Operation timed out]
sendbackup: start [teddy:hda2 level 0]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
sendbackup: info end
| gtar: ./dev/gpmctl: socket ignored
| gtar: ./dev/lircd: socket ignored
| gtar: ./dev/log: socket ignored
\--------

/-- smokey     hda2 lev 1 FAILED [data read: Operation timed out]
sendbackup: start [smokey:hda2 level 1]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
sendbackup: info end
\--------


Looking at the debug files on these 2 clients (and it's always these 2). It
looks like something ahpened to the tar task.

Any sugestiosn as to how to furthere debug this?

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