We kick off our backup at 10pm at the moment we are only backing up 4 seperate directorys i.e. 4 seperate disklist entries. These are estimated by amanda to be 17.4GB. The estimates are taking just short of 8 hours to complete which is unacceptable. This is after making every dump a full dump in an attempt to cut down time with doing estimates for level 1 & 2. To force it to do full dumps I have did the following in amanda.conf:
dumpcycle 0 strategey noinc skip-incr yes I'm running: amanda 2.4.3b3 Solaris 7 Using tar I'm restore onto a 35/70 DLT with software compression. The 4 directorys mentioned above are all on the tapeserver and those are the only thing the tapeserver is backing up. Does anyone have any ideas, because the estimates are taking so long the backups are still running when the users come in - in the morning. This means the backups I'm getting if I get them are 'dirty' not to mention it slows the system down as backups and users are trying to access the same data. Thanks in advance David Flood Systems Administrator
