On 23 Oct 2001 at 11:39pm, Claus Rosenberger wrote > i have a lot of problems with data timeout while backing up my local > partitions. the installation is very simple. i only backup my local > machine. there are a few small partitions. sometimes it work, sometimes > not. i use redhat 7.0 and the amanda 2.4.2p2 and checked the dtimeout > parameter. i used one time 3600 and another time 7200. > Upgrade your version of dump to the latest. I used to sporadically see data timeouts with dump on Redhat 7.1.
Alternatively, switch to tar, which I did for all our Linux hosts and haven't seen any data timeouts since. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University