On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 05:09, Bartho Saaiman wrote: > I have a problem where my dumper is slow and the taper seems to be faster: > > > STATISTICS: > Total Full Daily > -------- -------- -------- > Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:02 > Run Time (hrs:min) 11:21 > Dump Time (hrs:min) 9:42 9:42 0:00 > Output Size (meg) 14818.3 14818.3 0.0 > Original Size (meg) 20804.7 20804.7 0.0 > Avg Compressed Size (%) 71.2 71.2 -- > Filesystems Dumped 1 1 0 > Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 434.8 434.8 -- > > Tape Time (hrs:min) 1:37 1:37 0:00 > Tape Size (meg) 14818.4 14818.4 0.0 > Tape Used (%) 74.1 74.1 0.0 > Filesystems Taped 1 1 0 > Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 2606.1 2606.1 -- > > Is there a way of changing this to speedup backups. > > -- > |-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| > Bartho Saaiman > Cellphone * Work +27 72 341 8626 * +27 21 808 2497 ext 204 > Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za > |-=-=-=-=-=-=-=< registered linux user 236001 >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| > The only suggestion I have would be to carefully inspect the emailed report form amanda, with an eye toward resetting any disklist entry that reports a compression above 100%, to a non-compressing but other-wise similar dumptype, thereby bypassing the compression stage for those directories as its a waste of both time and tape space due to the files being expanded a bit by the compressors overhead housekeeping in its attempt to find something in the data that is compressible.
-- Cheers, Gene .sig missing because I updated to RH8.0 and evolution cannot import my old kmail mailbox. Sucks, big time high vacuuum.
