On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:25:14AM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Hi, > > One of the machines we backup is on a different network, so I've set it up > with amanda just like all our local machines, and instead of dump I used > tar and created a list of the most important files. > > Problem is, almost everytime it fails. > > A full backup is supposed to take around 3:50 hours to transfer on the 2 > megabit network connection. This is what amstatus says, and it is correct. > Only after a couple of hours the backups becomes slower and slower, until > it finally halts completely. Sometimes sooner than other times, but it very > seldom succeeds (it has happened). > > I've run this backup for a while just to see if it would improve, and > fiddled with the settings over and over, but nothing seems to help. > > Any ideas? >
This doesn't address any root cause of your problem, but may be a workaround. If you are not doing full backups every time, ie, you are allowing incrementals, consider splitting up the DLE into multiple DLEs. The technique has been discussed here MANY times as a solution to DLEs too large to fit on a single tape and is described in the amanda docs. The advantage is that rather than each level 0 being a huge 3.5 hr marathon, you could split that among several (say 4 to 8) smaller chunks under /usr/local/www/server. Only one or two would get level 0's on any one amdump. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
