On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:26 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: [snip] > > Just a clarification on terminology. > > As your dump progresses, dumpers become available, the dumper has to be > assigned to some DLE, i.e. client/disk pair. It is at this point that > amanda will decide to start a new dump or not, not the entire backup, > just whether to start any particular DLE dumping or not depending on > the current "network usage". > > The slower backup does not come by slowing things down to the netusage > parameter. It comes from only having fewer DLEs dumping over the network > at the same time. Once they start they can actually use whatever network > bandwidth they want. Amanda has no further control over it. Just whether > to start it now or later.
Well, but it never started the backup later. This has happened with the last two backup sessions and on the first I waited almost 7 hours for the backup to finish before I gave up and it looks like it actually started backing up the last filesystem but stopped before it finished. This sounds odd but maybe I have misinterpreted the amstatus output. Anyway I have decided not to be stingy this time and has given it a netusage of 1 Gbps. Hopefully that will cure this problem :-) -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen