Eric Siegerman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:35:55AM -0400, Jack Baty wrote: > > 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.
> So if you're using a standard configuration, where you let Amanda > schedule full and incremental backups, I'd add in the rest of > your DLEs and let Amanda run for a dumpcycle or two before > worrying too much about it. Just add them in a few at a time, or > you *will* face some very long dump times at first, since the > first dump Amanda does of any given DLE has to be a level-0. Thanks for sharing. I'll start adding my DLEs a few at a time and see how things go. > > Wondering if I > > should just stop using compression. > > Again, that would depend on just what the bottleneck is. If it's > CPU usage on the client, try reducing from --best to --fast as > someone else suggested, or try changing to server-side > compression. If it's network bandwidth, go the other way: move > compression from server to client, and/or increase the > compression level until you start maxing out the client CPU. I believe that right now it's a CPU issue with that machine, so I've made sure I'm running compress-fast on the dumptypes. May try not using compression and see what kind of times I get. Thanks again. -- Jack Baty Fusionary Media - http://www.fusionary.com/
