amanda client issue, dumps failing

2009-08-12 Thread Brian Cuttler
Amanda users, For the issue below, we have see several hundred thousand emails move through the system system each day. UFSdump is failing because it seems too many files come and go, queries to continue but can't get a reply (I don't know of a way anyway). We tried to switch the problem DLE to

Re: amanda client issue, dumps failing

2009-08-12 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
yes, /var/mail does tend to be a problem. My mail.log can get to a quarter million lines a day, but that's not the same as getting that number of messages. Typically, my level 1 backups aren't much different from the level 0, because basically everything changes every day. I get by with

Re: amanda client issue, dumps failing

2009-08-12 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 02:31:17PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Brian, gtar read the complete directory hierarchy before sending data, it can take a long time if you have a lot of files. Ok, will keep an eye. Looking at the sendfile log we are down to at least ./spool/imap/user/gling,