Hi,

With amanda-2.5.2p1 I did an archive a few days ago and trying to
restore it caused me a few problems: amfetchdump tells me that
there is no valid data to be restored for that date and amadmin
reports a connection timeout:

grumpy: /opt/amanda/sbin/amfetchdump -p -d /dev/nst1 archive-nihpd3-right1 \
yorick /data/nihpd/nihpd3/data/mri_processing/1.1 20071022 | tar -tvf -
No matching dumps found

grumpy: su amanda -c "/opt/amanda/sbin/amadmin archive-nihpd3-right1 \
find yorick /data/nihpd/nihpd3/data/mri_processing/1.1"
2007-10-22 yorick /data/nihpd/nihpd3/data/mri_processing/1.1  0
av24-1_archive-nihpd3-right1_T00006L3    0   -- FAILED (dumper) [data
read: recv error: Connection timed out]

However I was able to manually extract all the chunks on that tape
and, after reassembling them, to untar everything without a glitch.
Looking at the logs I see that it was retried with success:

DISK planner yorick /data/nihpd/nihpd3/data/mri_processing/1.1
FAIL dumper yorick /data/nihpd/nihpd3/data/mri_processing/1.1 20071022
0 [data read: recv error: Connection timed out]
  sendbackup: start [yorick:/data/nihpd/nihpd3/data/mri_processing/1.1
level 0]
PARTIAL chunker yorick /data/nihpd/nihpd3/data/mri_processing/1.1 20071022 0 
[sec 9771.397 kb 105401080 kps 10786.7]
SUCCESS dumper yorick /data/nihpd/nihpd3/data/mri_processing/1.1 20071022 0 
[sec 10432.472 kb 113375650 kps 10867.6 orig-kb 113375650]
SUCCESS chunker yorick /data/nihpd/nihpd3/data/mri_processing/1.1 20071022 0 
[sec 10432.600 kb 113375650 kps 10867.4]
STATS driver estimate yorick /data/nihpd/nihpd3/data/mri_processing/1.1 
20071022 0 [sec 8192 nkb 113375682 ckb 113375712 kps 13840]
CHUNK taper yorick /data/nihpd/nihpd3/data/mri_processing/1.1 20071022 1 0 [sec 
197.311 kb 5242848 kps 26571.5 {wr: writers 163840 rdwait
79.637 wrwait 112.112 filemark 4.930}]
CHUNK taper yorick /data/nihpd/nihpd3/data/mri_processing/1.1 20071022 2 0 [sec 
101.364 kb 5242848 kps 51722.7 {wr: writers 163840 rdwait
42.617 wrwait 57.238 filemark 1.013}]

...

CHUNK taper yorick /data/nihpd/nihpd3/data/mri_processing/1.1 20071022 22 0 
[sec 60.077 kb 3275872 kps 54527.8 {wr: writers 102372 rdwait
3.036 wrwait 55.529 filemark 1.051}]
CHUNKSUCCESS taper yorick /data/nihpd/nihpd3/data/mri_processing/1.1 20071022 0 
[sec 2313.467 kb 113376352 kps 49007.1 {wr: writers 102372
rdwait 3.036 wrwait 55.529 filemark 1.051}]

what gives?
jf
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