Gavin Henry wrote:

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Hi all, It's been a while now since my last mail, but I am still having trouble with one partition:

/var

/-- whitehat   /var lev 0 FAILED [data timeout]
sendbackup: start [whitehat:/var 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
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Any clues?

Not from the info you gave.  We need much more info.
E.g.
- amanda.conf
- disklist
- log files ~amanda: log.2004xxxx.x and amdump.xx
- relevant debug files found on the client in /tmp/amanda/...
- Your network topology (is this a machine over a 14.4 baud serial modem
  doing a backup of 4 Gbyte?)  How fast is this machine? How large is
  the /var partition?
- Have you tried the tar command by hand (you find the exact tar command
  in one of the /tmp/amanda/*debug files).  Does it finish? How long
  does it take?

If this is too much for the list, you may send them to me, if you like.


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