Gene, > You have over 5 gigabytes of mail? I find that hard to believe, not > even a major spammer would have that much.
<having nothing to do with the actual discussion> Depends, number of users, number of users that use eudora and keep mail on server, attachments... I've got close to 50 gig of mail on my mailhost system - and you aught to see what the Lotus Notes users have in the way of mail... --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 01:06, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: > >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 > > You have over 5 gigabytes of mail? I find that hard to believe, not > even a major spammer would have that much. > > >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 > > > I sure don't see, from the above report, a reason it should be so > slow. Is the system quiet, or are the drives being hammered by > seeks? > > Whatever you find, we would be interested in the fix for our own > edification. > > >----- > >Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com > >EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr > > -- > Cheers, Gene > AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M > 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly > Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message > by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. >