Stefan, Thank you, yes, I do have inparallel, set the holdingdisk size and spindle numbers default (to -1 ?) so they shouldn't be an issue.
I think Paul had it right, I'd missed "maxdumps", I'm sure I'd have spotted it if present as "1" but I'm running a version of amanda.conf that doesn't include it. We tend to carry amanda.conf forward from one version to another even when upgrading the software itself. Probably a bad policy, I mean it prevents typos but we end up losing out on the newer parameters until we hit a call and have to go digging. thanks, Brian [Charset ISO-8859-15 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hi, Brian, > > on Mittwoch, 21. J_nner 2004 at 16:57 you wrote to amanda-users: > > BC> My question is why amanda isn't allowing concurrently with the larger > BC> partitions when I'm certain we have enough spool space. > > BC> How do I do about go about finding out why these partitions aren't > BC> dumping at the same time, actually, its just an assumption that they > BC> aren't but given the run time of the partitions and elapse time of > BC> the job its probably a pretty good guess. > > BC> We have dumpers 4, I can include as much of the amanda.conf file as > BC> anyone wants. > > Have you TOLD AMANDA about the doubled space she can use? > (use-parameter in the holdingdisk-section). > > If you use spindle-numbers in your disklist make sure you don`t set > the same for the both DLEs you want to parallelize. > > BC> Run Time (hrs:min) 10:58 > BC> Dump Time (hrs:min) 10:18 > > There isn_t much parallelism going on, as these numbers tell us. > > Let us see your disklist and the corresponding dumptypes as well as > your parameter "inparallel", and the holding-disk section(s) for a > start. > > -- > best regards, > Stefan > > Stefan G. Weichinger > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >