Using gtar might help also.
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 12:20, Amy Tanner wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 01:06:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: > > It rather sounds like you need to allow more time for the process to > > run. Thats configurable with a couple of variables in your > > amanda.conf file, along with some explanatory test describing them. > > I did check the dtimeout value. It was set to 3600, which seemed like it > should be enough. I'll increase it to 7200 and see what happens. > > If the dump is timing out, shouldn't amanda properly kill the processes > though? > > > >I'm using dump with hardware compression (no software compression) > > on > all machines & file systems. > > The use of hardware compression as opposed > to software compression > can also be a course of 'gotchas'. When hardware > compression is > used, amanda doesn't have a very good idea how much data > a tape can > hold, so you have to set the tape capacities conservatively, > which > on big tapes can result in gigabytes of under utilization. > > <snip> > > I've read about the advantages of software compression over > hardware compression and I agree. I'm not the primary amanda > administrator - I'm just filling in while he's gone and attempting to > fix the problems - but I will make the recommendation to switch. > > Will the using hardware compression cause the dumps to take longer? > We recently switched to hardware compression because we got a new tape > changer. Perhaps that's the cause of the problems. These 2 machines > were not having problems previously when we were doing software > compression for everything. > > Thank you for your recommendations - I appreciate it. > -- > Amy Tanner > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
