On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:48:17AM -0700, Kris Vassallo wrote:
> In response to my own message, I was reading around a bit more and the
> broken pipe could be many things but usually means that the data isn't
> being dumped fast enough and the server gives up on the client (in my
> case the same machine). So I was thinking, I am trying to backup 281GB;
> therefore reading the data, compressing it and then dumping it back to
> disk all on the same controller... maybe its just taking a long time?
> Here are the lines in amanda.conf that pertain to this backup, maybe
> this will give some clues:

In an earlier response, someone replied:

> > > You need to raise dtimeout in this case.

Have you done this yet?

I'd suggest raising it a massive amount and see if the dump
completes at some point.

You can monitor that things are still running with commands
like top, ps, prstat, ... depending on your OS and available tools.

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