Looks like the estimate has timed out after a 1/2 hour. I do not know why estimation takes so long. What is more interesting: after amdump has finished there is still a gtar process running:
load averages: 0.91, 0.90, 0.90 20:48:53 58 processes: 55 sleeping, 1 zombie, 2 on cpu CPU states: % idle, % user, % kernel, % iowait, % swap Memory: 2048M real, 1495M free, 104M swap in use, 5474M swap free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND 24118 root 1 20 0 49M 49M cpu/1 89:38 45.23% gtar Here are the results of the test run: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amstatus cab Using /var/amanda/cab/amdump.1 from Tue Nov 11 18:51:59 CET 2003 lena2.cab.u-szeged.hu:/etc 1 550k finished (19:37:04) lena2.cab.u-szeged.hu:/root/ldap_backup 1 1380k finished (19:37:19) rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu:/etc 0 planner: [Estimate timeout from rozi.c ab.u-szeged.hu] rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu:/home 0 planner: [Estimate timeout from rozi.c ab.u-szeged.hu] SUMMARY part real estimated size size partition : 4 estimated : 2 1930k flush : 0 0k failed : 2 0k ( 0.00%) wait for dumping: 0 0k ( 0.00%) dumping to tape : 0 0k ( 0.00%) dumping : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) dumped : 2 1930k 1930k (100.00%) (100.00%) wait for writing: 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) wait to flush : 0 0k 0k (100.00%) ( 0.00%) writing to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) failed to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) taped : 2 1930k 1930k (100.00%) (100.00%) 4 dumpers idle : not-idle taper idle network free kps: 101000 holding space : 18864378k (100.00%) dumper0 busy : 0:00:00 ( 2.52%) taper busy : 0:00:06 ( 36.07%) 0 dumpers busy : 0:00:17 ( 95.97%) start-wait: 0:00:14 ( 80.88%) not-idle: 0:00:03 ( 19.12%) 1 dumper busy : 0:00:00 ( 4.03%) [EMAIL PROTECTED] And amreport says: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:37:27 +0100 (MET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] These dumps were to tape cab03. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: cab04. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: rozi.cab.u /home lev 0 FAILED [Estimate timeout from rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu] rozi.cab.u /etc lev 0 FAILED [Estimate timeout from rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu] STATISTICS: Total Full Daily -------- -------- -------- Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:45 Run Time (hrs:min) 0:45 Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00 Output Size (meg) 1.9 0.0 1.9 Original Size (meg) 1.9 0.0 1.9 Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- -- (level:#disks ...) Filesystems Dumped 2 0 2 (1:2) Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 5316.8 -- 5316.8 Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00 Tape Size (meg) 1.9 0.0 1.9 Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0 (level:#disks ...) Filesystems Taped 2 0 2 (1:2) Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 288.2 -- 288.2 USAGE BY TAPE: Label Time Size % Nb cab03 0:00 1.9 0.0 2 NOTES: planner: Adding new disk rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu:/home. taper: tape cab03 kb 2048 fm 2 [OK] DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------ lena2.cab.u- /etc 1 550 550 -- 0:005662.6 0:03 164.2 lena2.cab.u- -dap_backup 1 1380 1380 -- 0:005177.7 0:03 412.2 rozi.cab.u-s /etc 0 FAILED --------------------------------------- rozi.cab.u-s /home 0 FAILED --------------------------------------- (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1)