Unusual dump times?

[Jack Baty]

With everything finally working, I'm wondering if my dump times are 
excessive or to be expected. I plan to gradually include more machines 
totalling about 20GB. If all the hosts take as long as marvin (below), 
things could end up taking more than 12 hours to run. Wondering if I 
should just stop using compression.

Here's my disklist....

stewie /home/software   user-tar
stewie /home/projects   user-tar
stewie hda2             comp-root
marvin /usr             comp-user-tar
scooby /usr             comp-user-tar
And the report...

STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    1:09
Run Time (hrs:min)         4:48
Dump Time (hrs:min)        3:08       2:58       0:10
Output Size (meg)        4220.4     4210.2       10.2
Original Size (meg)      6915.5     6844.9       70.6
Avg Compressed Size (%)    61.0       61.5       11.4   (level:#disks
Filesystems Dumped            5          1          4   (1:3 2:1)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)       382.8      404.1       16.8
Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:32       0:32       0:00
Tape Size (meg)          4220.4     4210.2       10.2
Tape Used (%)              34.3       34.3        0.1   (level:#disks
Filesystems Taped             5          1          4   (1:3 2:1)
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)  2264.2     2275.2      755.3
DUMP SUMMARY:
                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
marvin.fusio /usr        0 70091804311267  61.5 177:48 404.1  31:352275.2
scooby.fusio /usr        1   55450   5443   9.8   8:49  10.3   0:11 515.1
stewie       -e/projects 1     200    200   --    0:02  96.7   0:009069.9
stewie       -e/software 1    2290   2290   --    0:06 379.9   0:013149.8
stewie       hda2        2   14380   2535  17.6   1:26  29.6   0:03 996.3
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