Re: Question about "data timeout".
2005-08-23 09:49:10
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> I have recently added a set of disks (file systems) to my back-up set
> and that ended up with a failure due to "data timeout". I didn't even
> know there was a dtimeout value to be specified in amanda.conf. I have
> learnt that it is an idle time measured against the disks in question.
>
> My question is now, how is this idle time measured and where is it
> reported?
>
> Only by knowing what amanda sees of the idle time am I able to specify a
> reasonable dtimeout value.
I may be totally wrong here, but I don't think it is tracking "idle" time.
I believe it is total time to dump. This would take care of "stuck" or
"runaway" dump scenarios.
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