After further digging into debug files and the amanda FAQ I figured out my etimeout value was too small.
-----Original Message----- From: Davidson, Brian Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Failed and Strange Dump Details I consistantly get the following error backing up on a Sun client: db-test.em / lev 0 FAILED [mesg read: Connection reset by peer] the other disks I backup on the same box work just fine: DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------ db-test.ems. /eec 1 1 2 200.0 0:00 5.6 N/A N/A db-test.ems. -xport/home 1 1 66266200.0 0:07 90.9 N/A N/A I am also excluding the above two disks from the / backup with and exclude file: # cat /usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar ./eec ./export/home I've checked the FAQ but can't find anything related directly to the failure message I'm getting above. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brian Davidson 11710 Plaza America Drive Reston, Virginia 20190 703.261.4694 703.261.5086 Fax