Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 04 October 2002 11:15, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > >>On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 at 10:54am, c white wrote >> >> >>>i've been running amanda for over a year now and every time i >>>get a report it tells me that the esitmated time for the job is >>>3 minutes, when it actually take almost 1.5 hours, why is this? >> >>That's "Estimate" time, not estimated time. "Estimate time" is >>how long it takes amanda to run a faux backup on all your >>filesystems to get an estimate of how big the various level >>backups would be, and choose what level to do on every >>filesystem. Look in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug on your clients >>to see what amanda is doing during the estimate phase. > > > That must be a fairly small system this gentleman is estimating. > Here, with 37 entries in the disklist, and serialized by use of a > spindle number, its about an hour, then another 1.5 to 2.5 to > finish, some of which is time in the compressor, so the drive sits > idle for a few minutes occasionally. Dropping the spindle number > useage so all the dumpers can run at the same time only seems to > hammer the hard drive harder without significantly reducing > runtime. Just my middle of the night observation though. >
When using dump instead of GNUtar you could get in the minute-range instead of in the hour-range. (But dump has other problems, so sometimes you need to use tar instead. Like me.) -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************
