hello guys, I'm new to amanda (and the list)... I just installed amanda for the first time, and was doing some backups/tests using it.
My doubt is... isn't 324.7 K/s for dump rate too slow? I was backing up 1Gb of data and it's taking almost 1 hour! does that mean that for 12Gb I'll get something close to 12 hours? my tapetype is: define tapetype DDS-3 { comment "Sony SDT-9000 (DDS-3)" length 11631 mbytes filemark 434 kbytes speed 1139 kbytes } shouldn't it run at 1139 K/s? another thing, I tried using compress server best and compress client best and I get no difference at all on the backups, same time to run, same amount of data, and same tape usage. below is a dump report for the last test I've ran. These dumps were to tape DailySet02. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet01. STATISTICS: Total Full Daily -------- -------- -------- Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00 Run Time (hrs:min) 0:59 Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:58 0:58 0:00 Output Size (meg) 1104.6 1104.6 0.0 Original Size (meg) 1104.6 1104.6 0.0 Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- -- Filesystems Dumped 1 1 0 Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 324.7 324.7 -- Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:58 0:58 0:00 Tape Size (meg) 1104.6 1104.6 0.0 Tape Used (%) 9.5 9.5 0.0 Filesystems Taped 1 1 0 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 324.5 324.5 -- USAGE BY TAPE: Label Time Size % Nb DailySet02 0:58 1104.6 9.5 1 NOTES: planner: tapecycle (1) <= runspercycle (1) planner: Last full dump of handsoff:/home/data/archive on tape DailySet01 overwritten in 1 run. taper: tape DailySet02 kb 1131200 fm 1 [OK] DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------ handsoff -ta/archive 0 11311501131150 -- 58:03 324.7 58:06 324.5 (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p2) cheers, -- Fernando Serto Systems Administrator Memetrics Pty. Phone: +61 2 95560833 Fax: +61 2 95556911 Mobile: 0403 338 005 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Certain disclaimers and policies apply to all email sent from Memetrics. For the full text of these disclaimers and policies see <a href="http://www.memetrics.com/emailpolicy.html">http://www.memetrics.com/em ailpolicy.html</a>