On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 04:49:09PM +0200, Dennis Ortsen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using amanda 2.4.5 (RPM package from Fedora Core 4). > > I've got amanda running for a few months now, and am ready to move all > hosts from the old backup server (BackupExec) to the server running > amanda. On a few servers we used to work with LVM snapshot volumes to > backup our data. When we configure amanda to backup a snapshot volume > using gnutar, we seem to have a problem with the planner timing out on > the estimate. > > The planner needs the estimate in order to make a solid decision on > which disk to backup when and what level of backup is needed. All the > other backups run fine, but whenever I want to backup a snapshot > volume created with LVM2, I get a long timeout which eventually times > out... > If it really does take a long time, you can work around that by setting the eitimeout parmater to something higher than teh defult in amanda.conf.
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