On Monday 04 September 2006 04:47, jose.navarro AT f-integra DOT org wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 01 September 2006 10:00, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
>>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> azureas is running on this box, port forwarding for it in the router,
>>>> and iptables rules to allow it are setup on gene atm, but they have
>>>> been for several days now.  And I made 2 passes at burning a dvd last
>>>> night, of FC6t2live but kept getting the identical but wrong sha1sum
>>>> each time. sha1sum is a cpu hog so I quit that about 2am.
>>>
>>> Gene,
>>>
>>> It's normal to lose UDP packet if your client is overloaded, and that
>>> amanda can't establish good connection.
>>
>> Is this what those logs indicated?
>
>That's often the case when you get "[request failed: timeout waiting for
>ACK]", and you told you were running intensive cpu job on the client.
>
>>> You can try to increase
>>>  MAX_REP_RETRIES in amandad-src/amandad.c
>>>  CONNECT_TRIES, ACK_TRIES, REQ_TRIES in common-src/amandad.c
>>
>> I have 20060829 on hand, I'll see what is in it now, and double it.
>>
>> Downside if any?
>
>It will take more time to detect real error.
>
Which apparently, 2 successfull runs in a row now, there hasn't been any 
of, with the above values doubled, amanda rebuilt and reinstalled.

>>> You can also try to use BSDTCP as your auth, it will be more reliable
>>> once the connection is established
>>
>> Is there a howto?  You had mentioned this before, but I didn't find
>> much
>
>in
>
>> the way of handholding.
>
>docs/howto-auth.txt and
>http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Server/Client_authentication

As this not only needs ./configure mods (which I've already done to my 
build scripts), it needs changes in the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file on both 
machines, so its bookmarked and will be done with the install of the next 
snapshot.

This brings up a wishlist item however.  It would be very nice indeed if 
amstatus, in the process of decoding the amdump.1 file on the fly, could 
detect and display the fact that these re-tries were in fact being 
exersized, along with what DLE the re-try was associated with.  That could 
be valuable info in arriving at an optimized backup strategy.

>Jean-louis

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