I have a system and I am attempting to backup a filesystem with approximately 30G of data. The estimates for a Level 0 take 3000 seconds. For a level 1, 7000 seconds. Is two hours just to get an estimate for an incremental dump? Is it typical to have to bump up the estimate timeouts to several hours? I just want to make sure that what I am seeing is "normal". It seems like an awful lot of churning just to estimate a dump size. This happens to be my only Solaris system being backed up. On a linux system, I'm backing up an area approx. twice the size with no estimate timeouts. That may or may not have any relevance, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
Here is the log: # more /tmp/amanda/sendsize.20040106015552.debug sendsize: debug 1 pid 13149 ruid 12167 euid 12167: start at Tue Jan 6 01:55:52 2004 sendsize: version 2.4.4p1 sendsize[13149]: time 0.020: waiting for any estimate child sendsize[13151]: time 0.020: calculating for amname '/export/home', dirname '/export/home', spindle -1 sendsize[13151]: time 0.022: getting size via gnutar for /export/home level 0 sendsize[13151]: time 0.026: spawning /usr/local/libexec/runtar in pipeline sendsize[13151]: argument list: /opt/gnu/bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null --directory /export/home --one-file-system --listed-incremental /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/ardra_export_home_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals . sendsize[13151]: time 3010.735: Total bytes written: 32350668800 sendsize[13151]: time 3010.778: ..... sendsize[13151]: estimate time for /export/home level 0: 3010.752 sendsize[13151]: estimate size for /export/home level 0: 31592450 KB sendsize[13151]: time 3010.778: waiting for /opt/gnu/bin/gtar "/export/home" child sendsize[13151]: time 3010.811: after /opt/gnu/bin/gtar "/export/home" wait sendsize[13151]: time 3010.812: getting size via gnutar for /export/home level 1 sendsize[13151]: time 3012.130: spawning /usr/local/libexec/runtar in pipeline sendsize[13151]: argument list: /opt/gnu/bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null --directory /export/home --one-file-system --listed-incremental /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/ardra_export_home_1.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals . sendsize[13151]: time 7024.171: Total bytes written: 93440000 sendsize[13151]: time 7024.173: ..... sendsize[13151]: estimate time for /export/home level 1: 4012.052 sendsize[13151]: estimate size for /export/home level 1: 91250 KB sendsize[13151]: time 7024.173: waiting for /opt/gnu/bin/gtar "/export/home" child sendsize[13151]: time 7024.241: after /opt/gnu/bin/gtar "/export/home" wait sendsize[13151]: time 7024.241: done with amname '/export/home', dirname '/export/home', spindle -1 sendsize[13149]: time 7024.247: child 13151 terminated normally sendsize: time 7024.247: pid 13149 finish time Tue Jan 6 03:52:56 2004 -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653
