Hi, Kris Vassallo, on Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2004 at 23:48 you wrote to amanda-users:
KV> AMANDA is starting to drive me nucking futs.. seems as if KV> every week something new breaks and I can't find the answer to why. KV> Here's whats going on... AMANDA sends me an email with the following information: KV> These dumps were to tape DailySet118. KV> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. KV> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: KV> bda2.berke //illustrator/BDA_Manual lev 1 STRANGE KV> venus.berk /home lev 1 FAILED [data timeout] KV> *SNIP* KV> /-- venus.berk /home lev 1 FAILED [data timeout] KV> sendbackup: start [venus.berkeley-da.com:/home level 1] KV> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar KV> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... - KV> sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz KV> sendbackup: info end KV> Previously something else was broken and I set the etimeout a KV> bit higher. I have now raised the etimeout to 10000 and it didn't KV> fix anything. This backup was working last week and now all of a KV> sudden it doesn't. It is trying to backup a 266GB file system and KV> the disk that AMANDA is dumping to has 420GB available. Any idea KV> on what would be causing this? Raising etimeout only influences the estimate-phase, not the actual dumping. I assume that amcheck runs through fine? Read the sendbackup.XYZ.debug file for more infos on what AMANDA tries to do ... let us know, with more details we may get the picture. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]