On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 at 8:09am, stan wrote

> Here's the scenario. I have an existing Amanda installation that was
> working well. I added several disk partitons to the backup set. These
> partions are on the dumphost. Tey also are big enough that they have to be
> broken up into smaller chunks to fit on the tape.

You say this, and yet you are using device names in the disklist, so I 
don't get it.  And amanda doesn't complain, so *are* those partitions 
bigger than a tape?

> Since then, I have not gotten a good backup of thes 2 machines in question
> (teddy and smokey). Bith report "data timeout" See the report below:

I'd look in the system logs for disk related errors.  You also may want to 
try using directory names in the disklist.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University