On Debian 3.1, 2.6.8 AMD86 SMP kernel... I couldn't get amanda to backup some very large pieces of data (DLEs in amandaspeak). They were 5 or 6 GB collections of sound files.
Turns out the problem was the iptables packet filter on the amanda client. iptables has a timeout for idle TCP connections that was breaking the connection to the server before the initial estimate of the backup size was done (because it took so long to go through the huge DLE). The solution is to decrease the time between keepalive packets: 'echo 90 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time' as described at: http://documents.made-it.com/iptables-timeout.html -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
