On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 04:49:09PM +0200, Dennis Ortsen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using amanda 2.4.5 (RPM package from Fedora Core 4).
> 
> I've got amanda running for a few months now, and am ready to move all
> hosts from the old backup server (BackupExec) to the server running
> amanda. On a few servers we used to work with LVM snapshot volumes to
> backup our data. When we configure amanda to backup a snapshot volume
> using gnutar, we seem to have a problem with the planner timing out on
> the estimate.
> 
> The planner needs the estimate in order to make a solid decision on
> which disk to backup when and what level of backup is needed. All the
> other backups run fine, but whenever I want to backup a snapshot
> volume created with LVM2, I get a long timeout which eventually times
> out...
> 
If it really does take a long time, you can work around that by
setting the eitimeout parmater to something higher than teh defult
in amanda.conf.

I'v had to do that on old machines that I use tar on.

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