On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Michael Lea wrote:
> * Mitch Collinsworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > The first thing I check when I see this is the network connection.
> > Make sure the system and the ethernet switch port it's connected to
> > are in agreement on half or full duplex. Amanda has h
* Mitch Collinsworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> The first thing I check when I see this is the network connection.
> Make sure the system and the ethernet switch port it's connected to
> are in agreement on half or full duplex. Amanda has helped me
> discover a number of these mis-matches th
>I've got one client machine running solaris 7 that is taking quite a bit
>longer than it seems that it should to complete backups. ...
That machine wouldn't happen to be connected via 100 Mbit Ethernet,
would it?
Solaris (among others) is notorious for not auto-negotiating the duplex
properly,
The first thing I check when I see this is the network connection.
Make sure the system and the ethernet switch port it's connected to
are in agreement on half or full duplex. Amanda has helped me
discover a number of these mis-matches that had gone otherwise
unnoticed.
-Mitch
On Thu, 14 Dec 2
* Martin Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Check your disk IO, it's probably saturated.. are you running the backup
> remotely, or is the tape device attached to your sun box?
Hmm, I'll take a look at the disk io stats. The tapehost is a remote machine,
but other solaris machines that should
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Subject: dump/tar taking forever on solaris machine
I've got one client machine running solaris 7 that is taking quite a bit
longer than it seems that it should to complete backups. It took it about
24 hours to complete a level 0 dump of the root filesystem usi
I've got one client machine running solaris 7 that is taking quite a bit
longer than it seems that it should to complete backups. It took it about
24 hours to complete a level 0 dump of the root filesystem using ufsdump,
and it appears that a level 0 tar of another partition on the host is also
