Check your disk IO, it's probably saturated.. are you running the backup
remotely, or is the tape device attached to your sun box?
btw.. man iostat
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Lea
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 10:06 AM
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Subject: dump/tar taking forever on solaris machine
I've got one client machine running solaris 7 that is taking quite a bit
longer than it seems that it should to complete backups. It took it about
24 hours to complete a level 0 dump of the root filesystem using ufsdump,
and it appears that a level 0 tar of another partition on the host is also
going to take about 24 hours. The root partition is a bit 2.7GB, the
second partition is a bit over 5.6GB. We have other solaris machines here
with slower processors that do larger backups without any problem. Is
there a good way to figure out why it is taking so long?
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.michael lea _/_/ "when in danger or in
Associate System Engineer _/_/ doubt, run in circles,
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