You can try to increase the 'etimeout'.

Jean-Louis

ay4you wrote:

Hi

i am getting a weird error from my amdump it has been working fine up until last night and i got an error

These dumps were to tape DailySet11-014.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet11-016.

FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY:
samba.ti.office /home/ChicRetreats lev 0 FAILED "[disk /home/ChicRetreats, all 
estimate timed out]"
samba.ti.office /home/Reports lev 0 FAILED "[disk /home/Reports, all estimate timed 
out]"
samba.ti.office /home/Technology lev 0 FAILED "[disk /home/Technology, all estimate 
timed out]"
samba.ti.office /home/Sales_Supply lev 0 FAILED "[disk /home/Sales_Supply, all 
estimate timed out]"
planner: ERROR Request to samba.ti.office failed: timeout waiting for REP


STATISTICS:
Total Full Incr.
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 1:30
Run Time (hrs:min) 1:33
Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:03 0:02 0:00
Output Size (meg) 1052.5 1050.2 2.3
Original Size (meg) 1647.7 1638.0 9.7
Avg Compressed Size (%) 63.9 64.1 23.4 (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped 5 3 2 (1:2)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 6392.4 7571.8 87.6

Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:01 0:01 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 1052.5 1050.2 2.3
Tape Used (%) 1.1 1.1 0.0 (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Taped 5 3 2 (1:2)
(level:#chunks ...)
Chunks Taped 5 3 2 (1:2)
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 17937.5 17907.4 81202.8

USAGE BY TAPE:
Label Time Size % Nb Nc
DailySet11-014 0:01 1052M 1.1 5 5


NOTES:
planner: Last full dump of samba.ti.office:/home/Editorial on tape 
DailySet11-014 overwritten on this run.
planner: disk samba.ti.office:/home/ChicRetreats, estimate of level 0 timed out.
planner: disk samba.ti.office:/home/ChicRetreats, estimate of level 1 timed out.
planner: disk samba.ti.office:/home/Reports, estimate of level 0 timed out.
planner: disk samba.ti.office:/home/Reports, estimate of level 1 timed out.
planner: disk samba.ti.office:/home/Technology, estimate of level 0 timed out.
planner: disk samba.ti.office:/home/Technology, estimate of level 1 timed out.
planner: disk samba.ti.office:/home/Sales_Supply, estimate of level 0 timed out.
planner: disk samba.ti.office:/home/Sales_Supply, estimate of level 3 timed out.
planner: Full dump of samba.ti.office:/home/Accounts promoted from 28 days 
ahead.
planner: Full dump of samba.ti.office:/home/Administration promoted from 28 
days ahead.
planner: Full dump of samba.ti.office:/home/Reservations promoted from 28 days 
ahead.
big estimate: samba.ti.office /home/Corporate 1
est: 0M out 0M
big estimate: samba.ti.office /home/Editorial 1
est: 2M out 2M


DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-MB OUT-MB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-------------------------- ------------------------------------- -------------
samba.ti.off -e/Accounts 0 155 88 56.9 0:15 5926.9 0:02 36828.7
samba.ti.off -nistration 0 737 559 75.8 1:17 7475.7 0:27 21509.7
samba.ti.off -icRetreats 0 FAILED --------------------------------------------
samba.ti.off -/Corporate 1 4 0 7.6 0:18 18.5 0:00 70693.0
samba.ti.off -/Editorial 1 6 2 35.3 0:09 223.6 0:00 83265.6
samba.ti.off -me/Reports 0 FAILED --------------------------------------------
samba.ti.off -servations 0 746 404 54.1 0:50 8215.1 0:31 13325.4
samba.ti.off -les_Supply 0 FAILED --------------------------------------------
samba.ti.off -Technology 0 FAILED --------------------------------------------

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.6.0p2)

can anyone tell me what happened and why it backed up some folders and left some
also they are all on the same server

also here is the response from

amcheck DailySet11
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /media/Backup/dumps/DailySet11: 398904 MB disk space available, 
using 398804 MB
slot 14:read label `DailySet11-014', date `20090618104445'.
Tape with label DailySet11-014 is still active and cannot be overwriten.
slot 15:read label `DailySet11-015', date `20090525010002'.
Tape with label DailySet11-015 is still active and cannot be overwriten.
slot 16:read label `DailySet11-016', date `20090518010002'.
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Tape DailySet11-016 label ok
Server check took 1.268 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 1 host checked in 0.115 seconds. 0 problems found.

(brought to you by Amanda 2.6.0p2)

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