Hi Paul

I fought with a similar problem for months when trying to get an amanda
client running on an unslung NSLU2 box (I already had one box up and
running). The infuriating thing was the dump appearing on the server
spool area then being deleted when the size line wasn't found.

Server and client were 2.5.0p2 (settled on after the struggle to setup
the first NSLU2 box).

Finally in desperation altered the client to 2.5.2pl which then worked
with client using it's native dump but not gnu tar!

Still no idea why it didn't or why it now appears to (trying not to
tempt fate here).

Good luck

Marc O'Brien

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Bijnens <Paul.Bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Monday, January 14, 2008 3:22 pm
Subject: Re: missing size line from sendbackup and PARTIAL
To: Jean-Francois Malouin <Jean-Francois.Malouin AT bic.mni.mcgill DOT ca>
Cc: Amanda List <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>

> 
> Sorry, for replying late -- very very busy here...
> See below
> 
> On 2008-01-10 16:54, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
> > * Paul Bijnens <Paul.Bijnens AT xplanation DOT com> [20080110 04:40]:
> >> On 2008-01-09 22:55, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Amanda-2.5.2p1 on both the server (Debian/Etch) and client 
> (irix-6.5.x).
> >>>
> >>> In a amreport this morning I got a DLE with:
> >>>
> >>> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> >>>  yorick  /data/nih/nih1  lev 0  FAILED [missing size line from 
> sendbackup]>>>  yorick  /data/nih/nih1  lev 0  FAILED [missing size 
> line from sendbackup]
> >>
> >> The backup program (gnutar for this DLE) normally should have 
> ended with
> >> a last line indicating the total size of the backup.  However, 
> Amanda did
> >> not find that line.
> >>
> >> But because that does not mean that you want be able to do at 
> least 
> >> something
> >> with the partial backup, Amanda did not discard the whole backup 
> image.>> (Also because, when e.g. dumping to tape, Amanda will not 
> rewind and 
> >> overwrite
> >> an invalid backup image -- too difficult and maybe some 
> intelligent human
> >> can still do "something" with the partial backup.)
> >>
> >> But Amanda still marks it "FAILED", and will try next time to 
> make a decent
> >> backup.
> [...]
> >> Need to find out why it broke off.
> >> Look on the client in the "sendbackup.DATETIME.debug" file
> > 
> > Here they come, attached, for the initial run and the retry.
> > What is puzzling me is that the entire image must have first
> > been dumped on the holding disk on the server, then taped.
> > Is it possible that I have hit some timeout. 
> > amanda.conf on the server has the following timeouts:
> > ctimeout 360
> > dtimeout 12960
> > etimeout 12960
> > 
> > Notice that the first sendbackup on the client failed after 37676s
> > while the retry did only after 5397s...
> 
> The log files show:
> 
> > sendbackup: time 223.775: started backup
> > sendbackup: time 37676.088: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe]
> ...
> > sendbackup: time 86.306: started backup
> > sendbackup: time 5397.634: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe]
> 
> Maybe this is the same problem as described here:
> 
> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Mesg_read:_Connection_reset_by_peer
> 
> ALso have a look in the accompanying "runtar.DATETIME.debug" files
> or see if you find any core files from around that time in the same
> debug directory.
> 
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