On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I have recently added a set of disks (file systems) to my back-up set > and that ended up with a failure due to "data timeout". I didn't even > know there was a dtimeout value to be specified in amanda.conf. I have > learnt that it is an idle time measured against the disks in question. > > My question is now, how is this idle time measured and where is it > reported? > > Only by knowing what amanda sees of the idle time am I able to specify a > reasonable dtimeout value.
I may be totally wrong here, but I don't think it is tracking "idle" time. I believe it is total time to dump. This would take care of "stuck" or "runaway" dump scenarios. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
