On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 30 December 2005 10:13, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> [...]
> >> Is this on the same machine, or on another client machine?  In the
> >> latter case, the connection may have timed out during the failure
> >> recovery.
> >
> >Client and server are the same machine.
> >
> >> What are the dtimeout and etimeouts set for in the amanda.conf? 
> >> The defaults there tend to be somewhat shorter than is sometimes
> >> needed. This is a moderately fast x86 box, with two clients, itself
> >> and my firewall box.  But it needs more than the default 300
> >> seconds for some things:
> >> --------
> >> # grep timeout /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/amanda.conf
> >> etimeout 900         # number of seconds per filesystem for
> >> estimates. dtimeout 1800        # number of idle seconds before a
> >> dump is aborted. ctimeout 8           # maximum number of seconds
> >> that amcheck waits -------
> >>
> >| [16:11:43]~#  grep timeout /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf
> >| etimeout 2000           # number of seconds per filesystem for
> >| estimates.  (default 300 s) ctimeout 30             # Maximum
> >| amount of time that amcheck will wait for each client host.
> >| (default 30 s) dtimeout 3600           # Amount of idle time per
> >| disk on a  given client that a dumper running from within amdump
> >| will wait before it fails with a data timeout error. (default 1800
> >| s) [16:11:51]~#
> >
> >Should be OK...
> >
> Looks like it should be, Geert.  Back to the logs then.

As I said before, nothing indicative there, except for the failure when
backing up /usr/share:

| sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.217: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 19253
| sendbackup: time 132.719: 124: strange(?):
| sendbackup: time 132.719: 124: strange(?): gzip: stdout: Connection reset by 
peer
| sendbackup: time 132.720: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe]
| sendbackup: time 132.720: pid 19251 finish time Wed Dec 28 00:57:39 2005

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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