On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:58:04PM -0500, Shawn Sanders wrote: > > So that took about 2 hours 40 minutes. Would that require the etimeout to > be upped to ~9000? >
The timeout gets multiplied with the number of filesystems and levels. I would set it to an hour for the next run. > Currently the etimeout and the dtimeout are at the defaults, 300 and 1800. > You should also increase dtimeout, since tar might take more than half an hour before it starts writing output data. An hour might be a good start too. > You mentioned I should look into a newer tar version. Currently I have > 1.13.19. I have not found > a Solaris source for 1.13.25 as of yet. Maybe that would speed things up. IIRC the main speedup was between 1.12 and 1.13. You can find the new one under http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ Ciao Dietmar -- Alles Gute / best wishes Dietmar Goldbeck E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization? Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
