Jon, Gene, Dustin, Actually I don't know that we need indexing on this box, Its a Lotus Notes server, so any file that it touched by its owner or receiving email will be backed up in its entirety, and some of these files are big.
It would be nice if I understood things better though as we have more traditional use systems that have ever larger drives and we have been forced to move towards TAR dumps over (os specific) dump. Somehow I don't see my manager ok'ing reenable of the index function to perform a scientific test. We are backing up about 320 Gig, to an LTO1 drive with HW compression. Work area totals about 230 gig, in 4 pieces. We had had issues with work area and added disk, we had issues with tape spanning and that is why we subdivided the two large DLEs. Holding area, number of CPU, etc all held constant between Monday night's dumps (typical of run times for the last two weeks, when we switched to TAR for the second large DLE) and Tuesday, when we disabled indexing and run time was dramatically shorter. Current disklist... we where wondering if the wildcard excludes and any effect on performance, vs the drive that was already setup in a way that allowed reasonable divsion of data. DLE /maildb2 moved from ufsdump to TAR several months ago, /maildb which is not nicely divisable was divided two weeks ago (than you Jon for help with wildcards). The LTO drive is 100Gig native, we are using HW compression and seem to be getting about 30% out of it, as evidenced by the recent breakpoint in the /maildb backups, they just became too large for the tape. We used to run SW compression, but disabled that a _long_ time ago as the Sun E250 just didn't have the horsepower. All partitions are local. # Notes server backup wcnotes / nocomp-root #wcnotes /maildb nocomp-user wcnotes /export nocomp-user wcnotes /usr1 nocomp-user wcnotes /maildb2/one { user-tar } wcnotes /maildb2/two { user-tar } wcnotes /maildb2/three { user-tar } wcnotes /maildb2/four { user-tar } wcnotes /maildb2/five { user-tar } wcnotes maildbAD /maildb/mail { user-tar exclude "[e-z]*" } wcnotes maildbEK /maildb/mail { user-tar exclude "[a-dl-z]*" } wcnotes maildbLQ /maildb/mail { user-tar exclude "[a-kr-z]*" } wcnotes maildbRZ /maildb/mail { user-tar exclude "[a-s]*" } > df -h Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/md/dsk/d10 7.4G 4.0G 3.4G 54% / /proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd swap 811M 32K 811M 1% /var/run /dev/dsk/c0t10d0s0 33G 34M 33G 1% /amanda3 /dev/dsk/c1t6d0s0 67G 64M 67G 1% /amanda2 /dev/dsk/c0t11d0s0 67G 64M 67G 1% /amanda4 swap 1.7G 974M 811M 55% /tmp /dev/dsk/c5t3d0s0 41G 14G 27G 34% /export /dev/md/dsk/d30 17G 3.8G 13G 24% /usr1 /dev/dsk/c5t3d0s6 379G 136G 240G 37% /maildb /dev/dsk/c5t3d0s7 379G 204G 172G 55% /maildb2 /dev/dsk/c1t4d0s0 67G 64M 67G 1% /amanda/work --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.