Re: 77 hour backup of 850gb?

2006-06-30 Thread Paul Graf
As Frank already noted, you are taping direct to tape, not using your defined holding disk. > > holdingdisk hd1 { >comment "main holding disk" >directory "/tmp/amandahld" # where the holding disk is >use 2 Mb# how much space can we use on it >chunksize 1Gb # si

77 hour backup of 850gb?

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Graf
I've got a strange problem with my backups. I'm running Amanda 2.5 on FC4, and the problem lies with one large directory that needs to be backed up. It's over 700 gigs, so it has to span tapes. Eventually the backup will complete, but I'm getting an average of 3 MB/s. However, if I back up