Toomas Aas wrote at 10:13 +0200 on Mar 1, 2009: > Sunday 01 March 2009 04:59:54 kirjutasid sa: > > Is this new DLE big? Lots of files? > > The new DLE is not that big. Its 'raw capacity' is 21 GB, ca 25000 files, > but > most of it are MySQL and PostgreSQL database files which are excluded from > the DLE. > > > It's also possible you're hitting a udp datagram size limit. This can > > be improved with a sysctl tweak, or a source patch or using tcp > > (sorry - don't recall if amanda 2.5.1 supports the latter). > > Thanks for the idea, I'll increase the net.inet.udp.maxdgram sysctl.
Long pathnames can exacerbate the udp issue, too. > I also looked at sendbackup debug files on the client, but the only error > there is the same 'index tee cannot write [Broken pipe]': . . > sendbackup: time 0.014: started index creator: "/usr/local/bin/gtar -tf - > 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/^\.//'" > sendbackup: time 469.114: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] > sendbackup: time 469.114: pid 11511 finish time Sat Feb 28 04:14:12 2009 It dies after 469 seconds. That doesn't seem to be a data timeout (dtimeout defaults to 1800 seconds). But often when you have a "biggish" DLE with lots of excludes, it can cause tar to be silent for extended periods of time and trigger a timeout.