Thanks, I have gone and updated that. I'm using the latest stable 2.51 on various FreeBSD machines.
-- Mark Hennessy > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Hyclak > Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 5:13 PM > To: amanda-users@amanda.org > Subject: Re: AMANDA and gtar and Maildir and a couple of > thousand mail users > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 04:41:31PM -0500, Mark Hennessy > enlightened us: > > I'm seeing this problem where gtar seems to take about 18 > hours in total to > > back up. > > > > It's pulling the data off of a NetApp filer connected to > the AMANDA server > > using Gigabit Ethernet. The total amount of data is like > 120GB and I'm using > > a Quantum SDLT-220 drive. > > > > I'm not sure what could be causing this slowness in the > backup. It seems to > > take like 6 hours to calculate the file list alone for this > partition and the > > other drives/partitions that don't host Maildirs get have > L0s done fine in > > like 2-3 hours at most so I would think it's because > Maildir simply has so > > many files. > > > > Any good alternatives to gtar? Any commandline parameters > to try to make the > > list creation be done more quickly or not done at all if possible? > > > > Thanks for any advice! > > You don't say what version of amanda you're using, but the estimate > paramater of your dumptype should help considerably. I use > CALCSIZE because > I don't really care exactly how accurate the estimates are. > There are a > couple other options you should check out. > > Matt > > -- > Matt Hyclak > Department of Mathematics > Department of Social Work > Ohio University > (740) 593-1263 > >
