On Thursday 12 August 2004 12:08, Ranveer Attalia wrote:
>Yes tsslin1 is a linux machine and no there was no finishing line on
>sendbackup, but I have another linux machine that is working fine
> with the same version of amanda client on it. What do you mean by
> ext2/3 ?

The question is what filesystem version you are using?  We're assuming 
that its ext2, with the journalling laid on top which is then called 
ext3.  Dump would care, tar would not.

>- Ranveer
>
>DUMP SUMMARY:
>                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER
> STATS
>
>HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS
>KB/s
>-------------------------- ---------------------------------
>------------
>pedlinux1    /           1   64770  64770   --   11:37  93.0
>0:106639.1
>pedlinux1    /boot       1      10     10   --    0:02   4.1   0:00
>34.9
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christoph Scheeder [mailto:christoph.scheeder AT scheeder DOT de]
>Sent: 12 August 2004 16:57
>To: Ranveer Attalia
>Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>Subject: Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone???
>
>Hi,
>That is all what your sendbackup.debug file contains?
>no line telling dump reached 100% ?
>and no finishing line from sendbackup?
>Then your dump-process is dying whitout message after 43.03% of the
>Backup.
>am i correct that this is a linux-box?
>then i would recomend switching to tar for the backup's, as dump for
>ext2/3 is known to be problematic with active (mounted) filesystems.
>Christoph

Something Chhristoph wrote triggerd another fading memory.  If there 
is a firewall involved, and the ports were opened ok, but the 
firewall see's no activity to 'keep-alive' within a certain time, it 
closed the ports.  This happened to another user at least a year ago 
IIRC.  I believe the cure was to extend the autoclosure timeing in 
the firewall rules.

And I concur with Christoph regarding dump.  Tar worked better for me, 
and it usually gives sensible error messages when it doesn't.  But 
tar versions vary too, and historicly we have been recommending only 
version 1.13-19 or 1.13-25.  There is an even newer version extant, 
but I can't recall if anyone here on this list has said it works 
correctly or not.

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