[Amanda-users] Solaris ZFS Amanda *compressed* GNUTAR SLOWWWWWWW

2010-12-21 Thread NetWatchman
# 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     

[Amanda-users] Solaris ZFS Amanda *compressed* GNUTAR SLOWWWWWWW

2010-12-21 Thread NetWatchman
# 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     

[Amanda-users] Backing up 50TB (ZFS) with Amanda using disk to disk

2010-12-18 Thread NetWatchman
OK...I see that as documented here: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/FAQ:Why_does_Amanda_not_append_to_a_tape%3F This would seem to allow full tape utilization without having to resort to vtapes...I'm pretty sure I was already doing this and it didn't work reliably...will try again. As I under

[Amanda-users] Backing up 50TB (ZFS) with Amanda using disk to disk

2010-12-18 Thread NetWatchman
[quote="Jean-Louis Martineau"] set: flush-threshold-dumped 100 flush-threshold-scheduled 100 taperflush 100 > > > OK...I see that as documented here: > > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/FAQ:Why_does_Amanda_not_append_to_a_tape%3F > > This would seem to allow full tape utilization without havi

[Amanda-users] Backing up 50TB (ZFS) with Amanda using disk to disk

2010-12-16 Thread NetWatchman
I've embraced centralized storage in a big way with the hopes that it would facilitate the backup process (e.g. if you have all the data and boot images on one system you don't even worry about doing network backups). In the last six months I've deployed 3 Solaris/ZFS storage servers to handle