On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:12:55PM -0500, Guy Dallaire enlightened us:
> One of my DLE fails to backup correctly from time to time. It happened
> twice this week. This is a bit annoying because it changes everyday
> (it's an oracle cold/hot backup destination for dabase files) and I
> really need to get this stuff backed up every day. This is the only
> DLE exhibiting this behavior.
> 
> I have to use anoither tape in the morning and RE-BACKUP this DLE
> (Which normally works fine)
> 
> It's not really huge.
> The error I have in the amanda report is:
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> 
> sol /disk1/RDBMS_BACKUP lev 0 FAILED [data timeout]
> It's no really huge.
> 
> I'n using amanda 2.4.5 the tape server is centos 4.2 (RHEL 4 Clone)
> and the client with the failing DLE is a sun solaris 9 box.
> 
> Is there a timeout I can configure for this ? What might cause this ?
> The client is in the DMZ, but I have FW1 rules allowing for the backup
> UDP and TCP ports.
> 

Check the setting of your dtimeout value in amanda.conf.

You might also want to check out
http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2551493 if you have a firewall
configured on your CentOS box.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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