dispite the multiple DLEs the wall clock time is not shorter than the dumptime, check use of inparallel and maxdump and you should be able to get some concurrency, not that running into the work day is an issue with this config, but its good to practice and now about it later.
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 04:04:16PM -0500, upengan78 wrote: > #Congratulations on a successful amdump! > > Wow, tell you what I am so happy to see those words! Thanks much! > > By the time I saw your reply, I had impatiently split my single DLE into 9 > DLEs which also includes the last one for excluding all 8 DLEs on the top. > > I did see same message again in the amdump summary : > taper: Will request retry of failed split part. > taper: tape TEST-1 kb 9845830 fm 15 [OK] > taper: tape TEST-2 kb 6661060 fm 7 [OK] > > But now that I read your reply, I think it just doesn't mean a lot as long as > I see OK below that particular message. Here is full DUMP summary : > These dumps were to tapes TEST-1, TEST-2. > The next 6 tapes Amanda expects to use are: 6 new tapes. > The next 6 new tapes already labelled are: TEST-3, TEST-4, TEST-5, TEST-6, > TEST-7, TEST-8 > > > STATISTICS: > Total Full Incr. > -------- -------- -------- > Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:10 > Run Time (hrs:min) 1:51 > Dump Time (hrs:min) 1:38 1:38 0:00 > Output Size (meg) 16120.0 16120.0 0.0 > Original Size (meg) 30661.6 30661.6 0.0 > Avg Compressed Size (%) 52.6 52.6 -- > Filesystems Dumped 9 9 0 > Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 2809.3 2809.3 -- > > Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:17 0:17 0:00 > Tape Size (meg) 16120.0 16120.0 0.0 > Tape Used (%) 157.4 157.4 0.0 > Filesystems Taped 9 9 0 > Parts Taped 22 22 0 > Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 16506.9 16506.9 -- > > USAGE BY TAPE: > Label Time Size % Nb Nc > TEST-1 0:10 10485219k 100.0 8 15 > TEST-2 0:07 6661060k 63.5 2 7 > > NOTES: > planner: Adding new disk TEST.domain.com:/bk/location/./apple2007. > planner: Adding new disk TEST.domain.com:/bk/location/./apple2008. > planner: Adding new disk TEST.domain.com:/bk/location/./apple2009. > planner: Adding new disk TEST.domain.com:/bk/location/./apple2010. > planner: Adding new disk TEST.domain.com:/bk/location/./pear2008. > planner: Adding new disk TEST.domain.com:/bk/location/./pear2009. > planner: Adding new disk TEST.domain.com:/bk/location/./pear2010. > planner: Adding new disk TEST.domain.com:/bk/location/./other. > planner: Adding new disk TEST.domain.com:/bk/location/./_rest_. > taper: Will request retry of failed split part. > taper: tape TEST-1 kb 9845830 fm 15 [OK] > taper: tape TEST-2 kb 6661060 fm 7 [OK] > big estimate: TEST.domain.com /bk/location/./apple2007 0 > est: 244128k out 119306k > big estimate: TEST.domain.com /bk/location/./apple2009 0 > est: 834272k out 521751k > big estimate: TEST.domain.com /bk/location/./apple2010 0 > est: 3646880k out 2857940k > > > DUMP SUMMARY: > DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS > HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-kB OUT-kB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS > KB/s > -------------------------- ------------------------------------- > -------------- > TEST.domain.co -u/./_rest_ 0 2981200 2155287 72.3 7:25 4838.8 2:05 > 17242.3 > TEST.domain.co -./apple2007 0 488140 119306 24.4 1:40 1188.0 0:06 > 19884.3 > TEST.domain.co -./apple2008 0 6484400 3803120 58.7 28:08 2253.5 4:23 > 14460.5 > TEST.domain.co -./apple2009 0 1668440 521751 31.3 3:17 2642.9 0:29 > 17991.4 > TEST.domain.co -./apple2010 0 7308970 2857940 39.1 22:30 2117.1 2:46 > 17216.5 > TEST.domain.co -tu/./other 0 5833440 3828839 65.6 18:01 3542.5 3:44 > 17093.0 > TEST.domain.co -pear2008 0 88010 46283 52.6 0:23 2040.3 0:02 > 23141.5 > TEST.domain.co -pear2009 0 4127930 1932585 46.8 9:16 3475.2 1:53 > 17102.5 > TEST.domain.co -pear2010 0 2416990 1241776 51.4 7:15 2853.0 1:12 > 17246.9 > > (brought to you by Amanda version 3.1.1) > > > Now I am thinking about, removing runtapes option completely, and add > splitdisk_buffer option to the holding disk, I am confused about one thing, > why you mentioned that "looks like your splits are about 0.5GB. " I have > actually set tape_splitsize = 1Gb although I do have fallback_splitsize = > 512MB . Do you mean I should grow this value to a higher value or you said > that about tape_splitsize value? > > Other than this, your explanation was really informative and thanks again for > that. > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by upendra.gan...@gmail.com via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org 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.