Dear all, Something really strange has happened to my amanda setup. I'm inclined to feel impressed, but don't know whether this in fact points to something being wrong.
If you compare run times, dump times, tape times, average dump rate and average tape write rate for the four different dates below, you'll see that suddenly amanda has shown a dramatic increase in performance (so to speak) even though the amount of data in question hasn't changed that much at all. I honestly haven't changed anything. The only thing that happened was that I had to run amflush on July 31, because for some reason the amanda-related services on the backup server seemed to have hung (but that's an entirely different issue). Extracts from the amanda mail report after each amdump (I'm doing full backups with each run at the moment): July 26 Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:04 Run Time (hrs:min) 9:43 Dump Time (hrs:min) 6:21 6:21 0:00 Output Size (meg) 56974.2 56974.2 0.0 Original Size (meg) 136759.4 136759.4 0.0 Avg Compressed Size (%) 41.7 41.7 -- Filesystems Dumped 106 106 0 Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 2549.2 2549.2 -- Tape Time (hrs:min) 9:23 9:23 0:00 Tape Size (meg) 56974.3 56974.3 0.0 Tape Used (%) 36.5 36.5 0.0 Filesystems Taped 106 106 0 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 1727.5 1727.5 -- July 27 Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:04 Run Time (hrs:min) 9:43 Dump Time (hrs:min) 6:17 6:17 0:00 Output Size (meg) 57089.0 57089.0 0.0 Original Size (meg) 137013.6 137013.6 0.0 Avg Compressed Size (%) 41.7 41.7 -- Filesystems Dumped 106 106 0 Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 2587.5 2587.5 -- Tape Time (hrs:min) 9:23 9:23 0:00 Tape Size (meg) 57089.1 57089.1 0.0 Tape Used (%) 36.6 36.6 0.0 Filesystems Taped 106 106 0 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 1730.2 1730.2 -- July 31 Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:04 Run Time (hrs:min) 4:03 Dump Time (hrs:min) 3:12 3:12 0:00 Output Size (meg) 57265.8 57265.8 0.0 Original Size (meg) 137495.9 137495.9 0.0 Avg Compressed Size (%) 41.6 41.6 -- Filesystems Dumped 109 109 0 Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 5079.1 5079.1 -- Tape Time (hrs:min) 1:17 1:17 0:00 Tape Size (meg) 57265.9 57265.9 0.0 Tape Used (%) 36.7 36.7 0.0 Filesystems Taped 109 109 0 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 12695.6 12695.6 -- August 1 Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:04 Run Time (hrs:min) 4:27 Dump Time (hrs:min) 3:37 3:37 0:00 Output Size (meg) 57887.1 57887.1 0.0 Original Size (meg) 139210.7 139210.7 0.0 Avg Compressed Size (%) 41.6 41.6 -- Filesystems Dumped 106 106 0 Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 4562.9 4562.9 -- Tape Time (hrs:min) 1:16 1:16 0:00 Tape Size (meg) 57887.2 57887.2 0.0 Tape Used (%) 37.1 37.1 0.0 Filesystems Taped 106 106 0 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 12951.4 12951.4 -- -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dramatic-reduction-in-backup-time-tf2044425.html#a5628905 Sent from the Amanda - Users forum at Nabble.com.
