Brian Cuttler wrote:

We are running the amanda client as amanda:disk, we are able to successfully
backup the (relatively small) root partition but not the larger user
partition.

From and client machine's /tmp/amanda files it looks like the dump is starting

but the debug file is incomplete.

I will include the relevant sections of the amanda run output as well
as the client's sendmbackup.<timestamp> file.

I'm not sure of what is happening, it looks sort of like the server is
not waiting for the dump to complete and that has never been a problem
on any of my other systems.

...

sendbackup: time 4253.597:  93:  normal(|):   DUMP: 68.50% done at 6135 kB/s, 
finished in 0:32
sendbackup: time 4553.514:  93:  normal(|):   DUMP: 75.54% done at 6314 kB/s, 
finished in 0:24

First make sure dtimeout is sufficiently large. (Could it be around
4800 seconds perhaps?)

Then, also make sure dump itself doesn't crash when running it by

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