On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 at 8:09am, stan wrote > Here's the scenario. I have an existing Amanda installation that was > working well. I added several disk partitons to the backup set. These > partions are on the dumphost. Tey also are big enough that they have to be > broken up into smaller chunks to fit on the tape.
You say this, and yet you are using device names in the disklist, so I don't get it. And amanda doesn't complain, so *are* those partitions bigger than a tape? > Since then, I have not gotten a good backup of thes 2 machines in question > (teddy and smokey). Bith report "data timeout" See the report below: I'd look in the system logs for disk related errors. You also may want to try using directory names in the disklist. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University