Re: Amdump takes forever

2001-07-11 Thread Gary Algier

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 at 10:44am, Gary Algier wrote
> 
> > I have tried to read the amdump log, but I can't decode it.  Are there
> > any tools to help me figure out where the time is being used?
> 
> 'man amstatus'
Just what I needed!  I missed that one.  I guess somebody added it while I
was not looking ;-).

It shows:
---
Using /var/amanda/Weekly/amdump from Fri Jul  6 19:45:00 EDT 2001

abel:/   0  282225k wait for dumping
abel:/home2  0  584393k wait for dumping
abel:/home3  0  508214k wait for dumping
abel:/home4  0  563139k wait for dumping
angelica:/   09341k wait for dumping
angelica:/export/home0  166745k wait for dumping
angelica:/opt0   28550k wait for dumping
angelica:/usr0   72708k wait for dumping
angelica:/usr/openwin0   85132k wait for dumping
angelica:/var0   65571k wait for dumping
bond:/   0   15136k wait for dumping
bond:/export/home0 1025601k wait for dumping
bond:/usr0  652433k wait for dumping
bond:/var0   15278k wait for dumping
bruckner:/   02223k wait for dumping
bruckner:/home   0  318820k wait for dumping
bruckner:/home1  0  499938k wait for dumping
bruckner:/home2  0  839959k wait for dumping
bruckner:/usr0  242340k wait for dumping
bruckner:/var0 680k wait for dumping
burn:/   0   15132k wait for dumping
burn:/usr0  363997k wait for dumping
burn:/var01242k wait for dumping
camelot:/0  304102k wait for dumping
camelot:/home0 2263810k wait for dumping
chuckie:/0   32320k finished (22:17:36)
chuckie:/export/homea0  936672k finished (21:00:45)
chuckie:/opt 0  233792k finished (22:16:46)
chuckie:/usr 0  553792k finished (22:08:42)
chuckie:/var 0  796096k finished (21:27:14)
chuckie:/var/mail0  646752k finished (21:48:25)
delilah:/0  340621k wait for dumping
delilah:/home0  671364k wait for dumping
delilah:/home1   0  995859k wait for dumping
delilah:/home2   0 1445041k wait for dumping
delilah:/home3   0 1745416k wait for dumping
delilah:/home4   0 1271751k wait for dumping
delilah:/home5   0 1043010k wait for dumping
delilah:/home6   0 102k wait for dumping
delilah:/home7   0 1227327k wait for dumping
delilah:/home8   0 1481872k wait for dumping
delilah:/home9   0  32k finished (20:25:37)
delilah:/homea   0 3445192k wait for dumping
delilah:/homeb   0 2637984k wait for dumping
delilah:/homec   0 3688052k wait for dumping
delilah:/homed   0 2737345k wait for dumping
delilah:/homee   0 2585379k wait for dumping
delilah:/opt 0  214049k wait for dumping
dil:/0   10671k wait for dumping
dil:/export  0   10463k wait for dumping
dil:/export/homea0  183504k wait for dumping
dil:/export/homeb0  519287k wait for dumping
dil:/export/homec0  53k wait for dumping
dil:/export/homed0 2620430k wait for dumping
dil:/opt 0  254696k wait for dumping
dil:/usr 0  484784k wait for dumping
dil:/usr/news04694k wait for dumping
dil:/usr/news/db 03558k wait for dumping
dil:/var 0   60297k wait for dumping
freeport:/   08202k wait for dumping
freeport:/export/home0   89100k wait for dumping
freeport:/export/homea   0 1720854k wait for dumping
freeport:/opt0  215813k wait for dumping
freeport:/usr0  451879k wait for dumping
freeport:/var0   44232k wait 

Re: Amdump takes forever

2001-07-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 at 10:44am, Gary Algier wrote

> I have tried to read the amdump log, but I can't decode it.  Are there
> any tools to help me figure out where the time is being used?

'man amstatus'

> I can supply configs and logs upon request, but a little info may be helpful:

Are you using software compression on slow clients?  Are you using server
software compression for several clients?  Either of those could slow you
down mightily.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University




Amdump takes forever

2001-07-11 Thread Gary Algier

My amdump is suddenly running for days.

I have a special configuration named "Weekly" that does a level 0 dump of
all file systems (with no record) that I have been running every Friday
night.  This always took until some time on Sunday, but lately it has
carried over to Wednesday or even Thursday.  Yes, I have added more
file systems to dump, but how do I figure out why adding 5% to the
work to be done makes it run for 100% longer?

I have tried to read the amdump log, but I can't decode it.  Are there
any tools to help me figure out where the time is being used?

Also, how do I "tune" this thing?  Should I allow more parallel dumps?  Or
is that self defeating?

I have been a happy user for several years, but I am now getting heat from
my users who can't get files restored because the system is too busy doing
backups.

I can supply configs and logs upon request, but a little info may be helpful:
Server: Amanda 2.4.2 on Solaris 8 with 52Gbyte holding disk
Tapes:  DLT7000 on an Exabyte 230D
usually uses 5 tapes / run
Clients: 182 file system on 25 hosts with amanda 2.4.1p1 or 2.4.2
with Solaris, Unixware, Sinix, HPUX, AIX, FreeBSD

Can someone please help me make this run faster?


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