On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 at 2:13pm, Michael Packer wrote
> No compressioni don't understand why it takes so long to dump?
> On the other machine we have running Amanda it dumps 5 gig in 25
> minuteswhat should I look for? I'm at a total loss...
First off, play with the columnspec parameter in
Best guess - look at the size of your holding disk.
If the 28 GB save won't fit in there, then it will go direct to
tape.
See if the disk subsystem is able to keep the tape streaming. If
you see lots of stop/start of the tape, then the tape is being starved.
Do you h
ua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:24 PM
To: Michael Packer
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Subject: Re: amanda: more on taking forever to do a full backup
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 at 2:13pm, Michael Packer wrote
> No compressioni don't understand why it takes so long
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 at 2:43pm, Michael Packer wrote
> Okay...fixed the columspec (guess we'll see when I run it again)...
>
> It took 1 minute 47seconds to tar the entire disk to /dev/null...
Careful with that. GNUtar notes when the output is /dev/null and doesn't
*really* read everything off
