On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 at 12:57pm, Sacha Panasuik wrote > One slightly annoying problem is the nightly report that I receive from > one server (the main head office one) has, what appears to be, > impossible time information. For example, last nights: > > Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:10 > > Run Time (hrs:min) 6:26 > > Dump Time (hrs:min) 19:14 13:46 5:28 > > From this report it appears that it took 19 hours for the dump to occur > - perhaps I'm a little confused what run time vs. dump time is. That > amount of time seems very unrealistic because the backup starts at 12:15 > AM and the report was emailed to me an 6:41 AM (i.e. less than 19 hours > apart by a long shot). > Amanda runs multiple dumpers in parallel whenever it can, and accounts for the time each dumper takes. So, while the 'amdump' command took 6:26 to return (aka for *everything* to finish), there were actually 19:14 worth of dumps done.
Think of it like a SMP program. It may take 2 hours of wall clock time to finish, but it used ~4 hours of CPU time. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
