On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 09:16 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Vects wrote: > > Hello there, > > I mentioned amanda runs only one dump of computer/partition the same > > time. Is there any way configure amanda to run many dumps at once for > > different computers? I have 6 computers to backup in disklist, it's > > about 4 partitions per computer, backup takes long time to finish, I > > want to speed it up by running parallel dumps to different computers. > > Actually, that's the default behaviour of amanda: doing as much as > possible in parallel. Why do you think it is not working that way? I did grep on amstatus output, see below
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ amstatus Full1 | grep dumping comp1:/dev/md0 0 2168626k wait for dumping comp1:/dev/md3 0 7042137k wait for dumping comp2:/dev/md0 0 205795k wait for dumping comp2:/dev/md3 0 24805120k wait for dumping comp3:/dev/md0 0 271823k wait for dumping comp3:/dev/md2 0 406454k wait for dumping comp3:/dev/md3 0 463883k wait for dumping comp4:/dev/md0 0 315582k wait for dumping comp4:/dev/md2 0 1695710k wait for dumping comp4:/dev/md3 1 534019k dumping 356352k ( 66.73%) (17:09:18) comp4:/dev/md4 1 1290441k wait for dumping comp5:/dev/sda1 0 298565k wait for dumping comp5:/dev/sda6 0 3174449k wait for dumping comp5:/dev/sda7 0 5895580k wait for dumping comp5:/dev/sda8 0 7868320k wait for dumping wait for dumping: 14 55902485k ( 98.48%) dumping to tape : 0 0k ( 0.00%) dumping : 1 356352k 534019k ( 66.73%) ( 0.63%) > > One of the possibilities is that the holdingdisk is too small. > The parallelism is achieved by collecting all the dumps to holdingdisk. I have enough space om holding disk, it's about 100Gb > > If you want more than one dump running on one host in parallel, you > should increase maxdumps for that DLE, and set a spindle number on > each DLE. Actually I want dump to backup different computers at once and then I'll enable spindle feature. I'm running amanda-2.4.4p2-3 (FC2) on server and amanda-2.4.[2-4] on clients. Should I upgrade to 2.4.5? Thanks, Alexc >