Peter Johnston said: > Hi > > I've been using amanda for some time now, generally with great success. > However, a couple of weeks ago the backups started taking much, much > longer > to run. To give you an idea, a typical run time was between 3 and 4 > hours. > It's now taking anywhere between 15 and 25 hours! > > Obviously the question 'What happened two weeks ago that changed this?' > appears. I can't find an answer to that. I added an extra machine to the > backup set about then, but that machine seems to be backing up in a > perfectly reasonable time as far as I can see. The switches that all the > machines involved are attached to are monitored by MRTG and it looks from > the graphs that barely any bandwidth is being used - the amanda server is > plugged into a gigabit switch and during the backup only about 1-6Mb are > being used. > > The amanda server is running on Fedora Core 2, with clients on Solaris 7 > and > 8, AIX and RedHat Linux 6 (yes ancient I know!). The server is generally > updated using yum from Fedora's repository, so any update from there is > probably applied. I'm running amanda 2.4.4p4 on the server. > > If anyone can help me figure out what has gone wrong then that would be > great! >
Hi Peter, Could you post your amcheck e-mails before and after 2 weeks ago and your amreport e-mails for the same period, if possible? Or even a amcheck -a AmandaConfName now? Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/