Dear Brian, > Did some parameter in amanda.conf get reset?
No, it is using the exact same amanda.conf (with some modification for amanda 3). > Where is the failure occuring? Estimate phase ("etimeout")? In the dump, estimate are fine. > Is the error in a consistent place? No, it occurs after a few hours. > Was there a change to the version of gtar being used? Is there > an incompattibility with gtar and amanda version that is only > catching on large (or possibly the only compressed) DLE? On the client I have gtar 1.26 > Need a little more to make any sort of targeted guess. The last test I did: amanda server 3.3.2, amanda client 2.6 I run the command: sudo -u amanda amdump --no-taper normal oak1000 /home/java On the server /tmp/amanda/server/normal/dumper.20121120165214.debug ends with: Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: security_streaminit(stream=0x80228b000, driver=0x800b133c0 (BSD)) Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: make_socket opening socket with family 2 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: connect_port: Try port 1024: available - Success Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: connected to 10.41.170.1:47063 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: our side is 0.0.0.0:1024 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: try_socksize: receive buffer size is 65536 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: security_streaminit(stream=0x802294000, driver=0x800b133c0 (BSD)) Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: make_socket opening socket with family 2 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: connect_port: Try port 1024: available - Success Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: connected to 10.41.170.1:47064 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: our side is 0.0.0.0:1024 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: try_socksize: receive buffer size is 65536 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: security_streaminit(stream=0x80229d000, driver=0x800b133c0 (BSD)) Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: make_socket opening socket with family 2 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: connect_port: Try port 1024: available - Success Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: connected to 10.41.170.1:47065 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: our side is 0.0.0.0:1024 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: try_socksize: receive buffer size is 65536 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: security_close(handle=0x802239780, driver=0x800b133c0 (BSD)) Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: execute: /usr/bin/gzip --best Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: Building type FILE header of 32768-32768 bytes with name='oak1000' disk='/home/java' dumplevel=0 and blocksize=32768 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: Sending data to 127.0.0.1:20209 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: make_socket opening socket with family 2 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: connect_port: Try port 1024: available - Success Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: connected to 127.0.0.1:20209 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: our side is 0.0.0.0:1024 Tue Nov 20 17:39:25 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536 Tue Nov 20 18:16:01 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: security_stream_close(0x80228b000) Tue Nov 20 18:16:01 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: security_stream_close(0x802294000) Tue Nov 20 18:16:01 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: security_stream_close(0x80229d000) Tue Nov 20 18:16:01 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: Building type FILE header of 32768-32768 bytes with name='oak1000' disk='/home/java' dumplevel=0 and blocksize=32768 Tue Nov 20 18:16:01 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: putresult: 10 FAILED Tue Nov 20 18:16:01 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: getcmd: QUIT "" Tue Nov 20 18:16:01 2012: thd-0x802226080: dumper: pid 72873 finish time Tue Nov 20 18:16:01 2012 On the client, /tmp/amanda/client/normal/sendbackup.20121120173926.debug contains: 1353407966.280495: sendbackup: pid 35322 ruid 14 euid 14 version 2.6.1p2: start at Tue Nov 20 17:39:26 2012 1353407966.280570: sendbackup: Version 2.6.1p2 1353407966.281498: sendbackup: pid 35322 ruid 14 euid 14 version 2.6.1p2: rename at Tue Nov 20 17:39:26 2012 1353407966.281705: sendbackup: Parsed request as: program `GNUTAR' 1353407966.281713: sendbackup: disk `/home/java' 1353407966.281719: sendbackup: device `/home/java' 1353407966.281724: sendbackup: level 0 1353407966.281729: sendbackup: since NODATE 1353407966.281734: sendbackup: options `' 1353407966.281843: sendbackup: start: oak1000:/home/java lev 0 1353407966.281895: sendbackup: pipespawnv: stdoutfd is 50 1353407966.281915: sendbackup: Spawning "/usr/bin/gzip /usr/bin/gzip --best" in pipeline 1353407966.282331: sendbackup: gnutar: pid 35324: /usr/bin/gzip1353407966.282390: sendbackup: pid 35324: /usr/bin/gzip --best 1353407966.282655: sendbackup: doing level 0 dump as listed-incremental to '/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/oak1000_home_java_0.new' 1353407966.283941: sendbackup: pipespawnv: stdoutfd is 6 1353407966.284178: sendbackup: Spawning "/usr/local/libexec/amanda/runtar runtar normal /usr/local/bin/gtar --create --file - --directory /home/java --one-file-system --listed-incremental /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/oak1000_home_java_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals ." in pipeline 1353407966.284885: sendbackup: Started index creator: "/usr/local/bin/gtar -tf - 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/^\.//'" 1353407966.284996: sendbackup: gnutar: /usr/local/libexec/amanda/runtar: pid 35327 1353407966.285135: sendbackup: Started backup 1353408441.084565: sendbackup: critical (fatal): index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] I can put all the log file to some common place if needed. Best regards, olivier > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:30:17PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I apologize for coming crying here, but since I updated my manda > > server to FreeBSD 8.3 (from 7.4), any big DLE will fail. > > > > I tried many versions of Amanda (2.5, 2.6, 3.3), with no success. > > > > Before I start sending debug, maybe there is an obvious action I have > > forgotten. > > > > I have tried, from the client side to tar|gzip|ssh cat >/dev/null the > > big DLE, and it went on with no problem. >