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 2000, Michael Lea wrote:
> 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
> going to take about 24 hours. The root partition is a bit 2.7GB, the
> second partition is a bit over 5.6GB. We have other solaris machines here
> with slower processors that do larger backups without any problem. Is
> there a good way to figure out why it is taking so long?
> --
> .michael lea _/_/ "when in danger or in
> Associate System Engineer _/_/ doubt, run in circles,
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