On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:16:25PM -0600, Fran Fabrizio wrote: > > 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. >
Are the disks IDE rather than SCSI? I find the Solaris IDE disk driver to be terribly slow. But several hours does seem too slow. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
