# date Tue Dec 21 20:51:33 EST 2010 # ls -ltr /amandadump/dmp001/20101221004214 | tail -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:36 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.598.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:37 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.599.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:39 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.600.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:41 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.601.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:43 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.602.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:45 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.603.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:47 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.604.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:48 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.605.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:50 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.606.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 470843392 Dec 21 20:51 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.607.tmp # date Tue Dec 21 20:51:54 EST 2010 # date Tue Dec 21 20:52:14 EST 2010 # date Tue Dec 21 20:52:20 EST 2010 # date Tue Dec 21 20:52:27 EST 2010 # date Tue Dec 21 20:52:30 EST 2010 # ls -ltr /amandadump/dmp001/20101221004214 | tail -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:36 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.598.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:37 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.599.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:39 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.600.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:41 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.601.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:43 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.602.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:45 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.603.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:47 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.604.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:48 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.605.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 1073741824 Dec 21 20:50 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.606.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda sys 943620096 Dec 21 20:52 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.607.tmp
Equates to 470MB/minute or < 10MB/s. CPU is barely utilized: otal: 98 processes, 806 lwps, load averages: 1.50, 1.44, 1.43 PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP 25639 amanda 1708K 1012K cpu1 0 0 17:12:46 11% gzip/1 25640 amanda 7176K 1164K sleep 33 0 2:17:34 1.8% sendbackup/1 123 root 0K 0K sleep 99 -20 4:57:12 1.1% zpool-rz2pool/51 25645 amanda 2448K 1324K sleep 52 0 1:01:30 0.8% gtar/1 25641 root 42M 41M sleep 49 0 1:01:08 0.8% gtar/1 545 root 12M 9996K sleep 59 0 0:54:49 0.4% syslogd/15 119 root 0K 0K sleep 99 -20 1:50:23 0.2% zpool-amandadum/51 25636 amanda 7536K 2872K sleep 59 0 0:22:04 0.2% chunker/1 868 root 7708K 1596K sleep 59 0 1:13:09 0.2% dhcpd/1 25457 amanda 7592K 2968K sleep 59 0 0:16:33 0.2% dumper/1 25588 amanda 7864K 2992K sleep 59 0 0:14:24 0.1% amandad/1 25969 root 3776K 2944K cpu5 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% prstat/1 665 root 2560K 772K sleep 59 0 0:06:04 0.0% fbconsole/1 723 daemon 2512K 1440K sleep 60 -20 1:12:29 0.0% nfsd/12 1060 noaccess 132M 103M sleep 59 0 0:05:46 0.0% java/18 NPROC USERNAME SWAP RSS MEMORY TIME CPU 30 amanda 23M 18M 0.2% 22:42:05 14% 54 root 135M 142M 1.7% 12:05:40 2.7% 7 daemon 8596K 6768K 0.1% 1:12:40 0.0% 1 noaccess 126M 104M 1.3% 0:05:46 0.0% 1 smmsp 1580K 2100K 0.0% 0:00:01 0.0% Total: 98 processes, 814 lwps, load averages: 1.51, 1.45, 1.43 disklist: zulu01 /rz2pool/mace comp-user-tar-span Granted...this is a big pool: -bash-3.00$ df -h Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on ... rz2pool/mace 12T 6.0T 2.7T 70% /rz2pool/mace Here's the definition for that dumptype: # Dumptypes for gnutar define dumptype root-tar { global program "GNUTAR" comment "root partitions dumped with tar" compress none index # exclude list "/usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar" priority low } define dumptype user-tar-span { root-tar tape_splitsize 3 Gb comment "tape-spanning user partitions dumped with tar" priority medium } define dumptype comp-user-tar { user-tar compress client fast } Gtar version: -bash-3.00$ /usr/sfw/bin/gtar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.23 When I do an uncompressed backup I get throughput of about 3000-4000MB/min or 50-60MB/s. So compressed backups are 10 plus time slower then uncompressed. What am I missing? +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by baldw...@mynetwatchman.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------