Re: Dramatic reduction in backup time

2006-08-04 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
do you > have? > Sometimes termination issues will show up in dmesg, also dmesg will > usually > show the speed at which the device negotiatesit is shown elsewhere too > depending on your OS. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dramatic-reduction-in-backup-time-tf2044425.html#a5646615 Sent from the Amanda - Users forum at Nabble.com.

Re: Dramatic reduction in backup time

2006-08-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
> > Yes, it's the exact same tape drive I've been using extensively for > > testing, and all that time it had been sitting in the same position on > > the floor. I moved it on Monday, and then amanda took off like a > > lightning bolt. > > > > Wow, that's something I'll be classing as very weird,

Re: Dramatic reduction in backup time

2006-08-03 Thread Michael Loftis
--On August 3, 2006 9:05:03 AM -0700 "Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, it's the exact same tape drive I've been using extensively for testing, and all that time it had been sitting in the same position on the floor. I moved it on Monday, and then amanda took

Re: Dramatic reduction in backup time

2006-08-03 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
disk >> > but were severely constrained by slow tapeing. I wonder >> > about the halving of dump time also. There may still have >> > been a problem with the disk system. >> > >> > Did anyone change any scsi cables or terminators. >> > Or maybe the just "jiggled" things back there doing other work? >> > >> > > > Are you using that SDLT drive for which you reported a tapetype > back in early June? If so, you have had a problem since then. > > In June your tapetype showed 2200 k/s. > Similarly, your recent slow dumps had a > tapeing speed of about 2500 and 1800 k/s. > > Your more recent fast dumps were taped at about 13000 k/s. > The sdlt is rated at 16000 k/s. > > I'd say you had tape system problems > fixed by physical movement or reboot. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dramatic-reduction-in-backup-time-tf2044425.html#a5635442 Sent from the Amanda - Users forum at Nabble.com.

Re: Dramatic reduction in backup time

2006-08-03 Thread mat
bis 15.8. bin ich nicht erreichbar. in dringenden fällen senden sie ihre nachricht bitte an mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], vielen dank.

Re: Dramatic reduction in backup time

2006-08-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:25:43AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > > Well, I may have "lied" a bit when saying that nothing had changed... > > What did change was that I moved the server from temporarily sitting on the > floor to where it will now stay full-time. So it was a shu

Re: Dramatic reduction in backup time

2006-08-03 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
time. > > So it would appear the dumps were going to the holding disk > but were severely constrained by slow tapeing. I wonder > about the halving of dump time also. There may still have > been a problem with the disk system. > > Did anyone change any scsi cables or terminators. > Or ma

Re: Dramatic reduction in backup time

2006-08-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:46:06AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > > That was definitely not the case. The holding disk has been empty all this > time, except on 31 July. And after I ran amflush it was empty again. > > What I don't understand is the increase in dump time and tap

Re: Dramatic reduction in backup time

2006-08-03 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
> different issue). > > That si just a wilkd guess, but how about the amflush has freed space > on your holding disk that had been wasted for ages? > > Olivier > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dramatic-reduction-in-backup-time-tf2044425.html#a5629636 Sent from the Amanda - Users forum at Nabble.com.

Re: Dramatic reduction in backup time

2006-08-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
> I honestly haven't changed anything. The only thing that happened was that > I had to run amflush on July 31, because for some reason the amanda-related > services on the backup server seemed to have hung (but that's an entirely > different issue). That si just a wilkd guess, but how about the

Dramatic reduction in backup time

2006-08-03 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
1:16 0:00 Tape Size (meg) 57887.257887.20.0 Tape Used (%) 37.1 37.10.0 Filesystems Taped 106106 0 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 12951.412951.4-- -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.co