Something has changed in amanda.
I have been running amanda on this lan for several years. For the most
part, DLE's have been constant for at least six months. I have six
linux servers, all running debian. Regarding amanda-server, my records
show that I upgraded amanda to version:
2.4.5 on 16JUN05
Everything was backing up, and restoring, to my satisfaction, until last
week. At that time, two servers (brono & jord) were terribly old,
regarding kernel and debian os. So, I upgraded via aptitude, which also
upgraded amanda-client to version:
2.5.0
Since that time, many -- but, NOT all -- DLE's on brono and jord are
FAIL'ing, e.g.:
brono /var lev 0 FAILED [missing result for /var in brono response]
jord /var lev 0 FAILED [missing result for /var in jord response]
Yes, both of these servers have many DLE's; but, as stated above, this
HAS been working without incident at the older version. Numbers of
DLE's:
brono 137
jord 219
At first, I thought that this maybe conflict between amanda-server and
amanda-client versions; so, I upgraded amanda-server:
2.5.0 on 23MAY06
NO difference.
So, I searched these archives, and I googled. All I found was this URL:
<http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amdump:_results_missing>
amanda.conf has never had `etimeout' configured. Yesterday, I set it:
etimeout 600
NO difference. Remember, this exact same configuration has been working
WITHOUT incident at older version for eleven months!
This is NOT a firewall issue, since this is only for my internal lan.
Regarding maximum udp datagram size:
net.inet.udp.maxdgram=63535
Apparently, sysctl on linux/debian does NOT support this. I have pinged
debian-user on this issue; but, there has been NO response. I do NOT
know what the current, default size is; nor do I know how to change it.
I prefer NOT to combine DLE's; which will pose other challenges, not the
least of which is DLE larger than tape. These DLE's are very dynamic.
I cannot predict when a particular DLE will contain enormous data; and
the nature of this dynamic data is already compressed ...
What am I missing? This used to work; then, it b0rk; and the only
change was a newer amanda version.
What do you think?
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