On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 at 11:21am, Bob Zahn wrote > I'm trying to set up the options in amanda.conf to improve the > performance (this equates to shortest time to backup) of these five > Windows NT/2K servers: > > server1 C$ 2.19GB > server1 D$ 35.6GB > server2 C$ 1.58GB > server2 D$ 12.9GB > server3 C$ 2.18GB > server3 D$ 11.6GB > server4 C$ 1.3GB > server4 D$ 20.4GB > server5 C$ 2.97GB > server5 D$ 13.7GB
How many samba servers are you using? > If you run the backup on these servers single threaded it takes about > 10 hours to backup. I've changed inparallel to 8 and maxdumps to 8 If you have one samba server, and maxdumps 8, you may see a slowdown of your dumprates offsetting your increased parallelism. How do your dumprates compare? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
