Stefan, Gene, Paul, Unfortunately my amanda run didn't run any more quickly.
>From amanda.conf - I can send more if you want to see more. org "NOTES_DLT" # your organization name for reports mailto "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" # the mailing list for operators at your site dumpuser "bin" # the user to run dumps under # changed from 8 to 4... can't explain excessive time to backup 4 partitions -ck inparallel 4 # maximum dumpers that will run in parallel # maxdumps, added 21-jan-2004 BRC maxdumps 2 # max (concurrent) to be run on any individual "client" disklist -------- # Notes server backup wcnotes / comp-root wcnotes /maildb comp-user wcnotes /maildb2 comp-user wcnotes /export/home comp-user that is it, just the one client. Suppose I can set maxdumps to 4, anyway no sense in having inparallel != maxdumps with only a single client. How sensitive is amanda.conf (disklist or others) to white space ? I've notices that its often keyword value <tab># comment Just to be paraniod I changed the space to a tab. Am I missing some other parameter that controls parallelism ? I was thinking of running amstatus from cron very 15 minutes to watch it but that still isn't much of a diagnostic, more to confirm lack of parallelism. thanks, Brian --- 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