From: Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com>
Subject: Re: FAILED [data write: Broken pipe]
To: "Yogesh Hasabnis" <yhmail29 AT yahoo.co DOT in>
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 6:02 PM

Yogesh Hasabnis wrote:
> gzip: stdout: Connection timed out
This is weird, do your system automaticaly close connection after some time?
After how many it happens? is it always the same?

Jean-Louis

No it doesn't. The backup system with amanda was working fine all these days. The problem has cropped up since last 4 days. All of the last 4 daily backups have failed. I am attaching the error message received in the email again. It's as follows:

 

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  <hostname>  /vol/vol1/home  lev 0  FAILED [data write: Broken pipe]
  <hostname>  /vol/vol1/home  lev 0  FAILED [input: Can't read data: : Connection reset by peer]
  <hostname>  /vol/vol1/home  lev 0  FAILED [dump to tape failed]


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Incr.
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    1:26
Run Time (hrs:min)         5:27
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Output Size (meg)           0.0        0.0        0.0
Original Size (meg)         0.0        0.0        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         --
Filesystems Dumped            0          0          0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)         --         --         --

Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0
Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0
Filesystems Taped             0          0          0

Chunks Taped                  0          0          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)     --         --         --

USAGE BY TAPE:
  Label             Time      Size      %    Nb    Nc
  tendaily-08       0:00        0K    0.0     0     0

 
FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:

/--  <hostname> /vol/vol1/home lev 0 FAILED [data write: Broken pipe]
sendbackup: start [toe.tti.tensilica.com:/vol/vol1/home level 0]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/gtar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gtar -f... -
sendbackup: info end
\--------

 
NOTES:
  planner: Incremental of toe.tti.tensilica.com:/vol/vol1/home bumped to level 2.
  taper: tape tendaily-08 kb 32064 fm 1 [OK]

 
DUMP SUMMARY:
                                       DUMPER STATS               TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB  OUT-KB  COMP%  MMM:SS   KB/s MMM:SS   KB/s
-------------------------- ------------------------------------- -------------
<hostname> -/vol1/home 0 FAILED --------------------------------------------

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.5..0p2)

 

Thanks in advance,

Yogesh