Amanda-Users

request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

2006-03-10 05:23:20
Subject: request failed: timeout waiting for ACK
From: Stefan Herrmann <magic99de AT web DOT de>
To: Amanda Users <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:19:01 +0100
hello list,

didnt find a solution for this problem yet, and need it urgently.

this is a summary of what happened:

system is:
FreeBSD pille.hq.imos.net 5.4-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p3 #0: Sat Jul 2 16:02:43 CEST 2005 root AT pille.hq.imos DOT net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IMOS i386

amanda versions:
server: 2.5.0b2
client: 2.4.5p1

"amstatus daily" tells the following:

pille.hq.imos.net:/ 0 252m finished (2:08:23) pille.hq.imos.net:/opt 1 driver: (aborted:[request failed: timeout waiting for ACK])(too many dumper retry) pille.hq.imos.net:/usr 0 3505m finished (1:53:08) pille.hq.imos.net:/var 0 driver: (aborted:[request failed: timeout waiting for ACK])(too many dumper retry)

as you can see, parts of the backup are done, others get aborted. reason is that often the client does not answer the request from the amanda server. that is what i can see from a tcpdump output and
from amandad.*.debug on the client:

[...]
amandad: time 30.004: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 30.004: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 30.004: pid 64288 finish time Fri Mar 10 02:05:55 2006

i already installed the fix for freebsd for large udp packets, so that should not be the problem.

i dont know what to do further, can anyone help ?

bye
Stefan Herrmann