On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: > Nicolas Ecarnot a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I recently had this kind of problem with my amanda server. It has to > > backup around 120 samba clients : > > > > GETTING ESTIMATES... > > planner: time 0.371: dgram_send_addr: sendto(192.168.10.66.10080) > > failed: Message too long > > send req failed: Message too long > > I'm sorry to insist but this problem is really blocking me and I don't > really know what to do to solve it. > > I read in the faq that this may be due to an UDP packet size problem. > The suggested workaround is to shorten the names used in the directories > to save. > Unfortunately, I'm backing up many samba clients, and their names can't > be all changed, and I have no way to create symbolic links or that knid > of things. > > In my disklist, I have 120 lines like this : > backup.foo.com //winHost001/share nocomp-user-gnutar > > * I don't know HOW I could shorten this ?
The other way to work around this problem is to employ multiple smbclient machines. So run some samba clients through backup.foo.com and some other samba clients through backup2.foo.com, etc. -Mitch