Hello - I am making great progress with Amanda; now backing up three systems. (For some reason, samba backups did not work for me; but installing the amanda client on our windows server did the trick; I can backup over that). We have a dedicated machine to do the backups, and it backs up two unix servers (one Linux one SunOS 5.8), and a windows machine.
One puzzling thing is that our SunOS system seems to take a very long time making backups. I started a full backup about 12 hours ago, and it's still running. If I wait long enough, it finishes (I did it once before), but I would like it to finish in a regular timeframe. There is no bottleneck as far as I can tell; the machines are mostly idle; the network connection is 100MB like the other machines. I am not very good at reading the 'amstatus' output so I thought I would ask for help from this very helpful group.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda]$ amstatus home | more Using /usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/amdump from Mon Nov 3 23:25:26 EET 2003 home:/etc 0 6296k finished (23:46:28) home:/usr/local 0 552408k finished (3:32:29) home:/usr/users 0 1516665k dumping to tape (3:32:29) home:/var/spool/mail 0 5028910k wait for dumping SUMMARY part real estimated size size partition : 4 estimated : 4 7227450k flush : 0 0k failed : 0 0k ( 0.00%) wait for dumping: 1 5028910k ( 69.58%) dumping to tape : 1 1516665k ( 20.98%) dumping : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) dumped : 3 2075369k 2198540k ( 94.40%) ( 28.72%) wait for writing: 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) wait to flush : 0 0k 0k (100.00%) ( 0.00%) writing to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) failed to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) taped : 2 558704k 681875k ( 81.94%) ( 7.73%) 3 dumpers idle : not-idle taper writing, tapeq: 0 network free kps: 6570 holding space : 0k ( 0.00%) dumper0 busy : 4:03:57 (100.00%) taper busy : 4:03:57 (100.00%) 0 dumpers busy : 0:00:00 ( 0.00%) 1 dumper busy : 4:03:57 (100.00%) not-idle: 4:03:57 (100.00%) I just checked the 'home' system; the one that's being backed up, and it shows that 'tar' is running, likewise for two 'sendbackup' processes. The last entry in /tmp/amanda belongs to amandad, and it has not been updated for about 4 hours. it reads: CONNECT DATA 921 MESG 922 INDEX 923 OPTIONS features=fffffeff9ffe0f; ---- amandad: time 0.133: got packet: ---- Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 000-A8E80608 SEQ 1067894728 ---- amandad: time 0.133: pid 8343 finish time Tue Nov 4 03:29:37 2003 I guess this means that it finished. PS: I dont have a tape drive define; I backup to disk using the very useful chg-disk "changer". Therefore I did not define any holding disks. I'd appreciate any feedback.. Thanks, -turgut ----- Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr