On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 09:55:18AM -0500, Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote:
> I recently replaced my amanda server with a new machine but managed to move 
> all indices and databases with it.  I did go from FreeBSD to Linux but all 
> changer scripts and tape devices are configured properly and working.   The 
> problem I'm having is that I'm getting
> 
> ... FAILED [Estimate timeout from  ...
> 
> On some machines it fails for all filesystems and for others only on one or 
> two filesystems, while on others all filesystems are backed up.  I've 
> checked the   sendsize   report and see that the estimates are being 
> generated well within my  etimeout  (1200) setting in amanda.conf.
> 
> 
...
> 
> and the estimate process exits normally (the error in this case is 
> with   /usr ):
> 
> sendsize[58347]: time 0.002: calculating for amname '/usr', dirname '/usr', 
> spindle -1
> sendsize[58347]: time 0.002: getting size via gnutar for /usr level 0
> sendsize[58347]: time 0.002: spawning /usr/local/amanda/libexec/runtar in 
> pipeline
> sendsize[58347]: argument list: /usr/bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null 
> --directory /usr --one-file-system --listed-incremental 

==
> /usr/local/amanda/var/gnutar-lists/dhcp.hf.utexas.edu_usr_0.new --sparse 
> --ignore-failed-read --totals .
> sendsize[58347]: time 6.206: /usr/bin/gtar: 

==
> ./local/amanda/var/gnutar-lists/dhcp.hf.utexas.edu_dhcpd_1.new: Warning: 
> Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> 11MB/s)
...
> sendsize[58347]: gnutar: error opening 

==
> /usr/local/amanda/var/gnutar-lists/dhcp.hf.utexas.edu_usr_0: No such file 
> or directory
> sendsize[58347]: time 461.852: spawning /usr/local/amanda/libexec/runtar in 
> pipeline
> sendsize[58347]: argument list: /usr/bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null 
> --directory /usr --one-file-system --listed-incremental 
> /usr/local/amanda/var/gnutar-lists/dhcp.hf.utexas.edu_usr_1.new --sparse 
> --ignore-failed-read --totals .
> sendsize[58347]: time 960.593: Total bytes written: 5500907520 (5.1GB, 
> 10MB/s)
...

> sendsize[58344]: time 960.711: child 58347 terminated normally
> 
> not sure about the "No such file or directory" errors although they happen 
> for other filesystems where the estimate was successful and the filesystem 
> was backed up.


Not sure either, however I note that the one 'gnutar-lists' you
show that failed was "./local/" and the two that succeeded were
"/usr/local/".

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