Please keep replies on list, so that everyone sees them and can chip in. On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 at 10:21am, Guy Dallaire wrote
> 2005/8/30, Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 at 9:39am, Guy Dallaire wrote > > > > > sendbackup: time 6032.923: 53: size(|): Total bytes written: > > > 5467463680 (5.1GiB, 886KiB/s) > > > sendbackup: time 6032.969: pid 12853 finish time Tue Aug 30 06:20 > > > :19 2005 > > > > > > --------------- > > > > > > It started at 4h39 and finished at 6h20 ! It really took a LONG time. > > > Why, I don't know. > > > > We really need more info -- client OS, type of filesystem, etc. Also, are > > there a lot of small files? Many FSs slow down when there are lots of > > inodes in use. > > > > A full dump of the same disk on august 27th resulted in 3.1 GiB > (Compared to 5.1 GiB) on august 30. As far as I know, there should not > be such a big difference. > > This is a solaris 9 Box running amanda 2.4.5. > > There is not a lot of small files as far as I know. > > As I told you, the problem only seems to occur on level 1 backups. > Level 0 backups always seem to complete normally. I'd look at both tar and the filesystem closely -- why does tar think the level 1 should be so big? Is there a problem with tar (what version are you running), or is something odd going on with the filesystem? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
