On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> I have a system and I am attempting to backup a filesystem with > approximately 30G of data. The estimates for a Level 0 take 3000 > seconds. For a level 1, 7000 seconds. Is two hours just to get an > estimate for an incremental dump? Is it typical to have to bump up the > estimate timeouts to several hours? I just want to make sure that what > I am seeing is "normal". It seems like an awful lot of churning just to > estimate a dump size. This happens to be my only Solaris system being > backed up. On a linux system, I'm backing up an area approx. twice the > size with no estimate timeouts. That may or may not have any relevance, > but I thought it was worth mentioning. You might find estimates run faster with dump than tar. Which on a Sun is probably a safe thing to do, depending on what file system you use. -Mitch
