I'm seeing this problem where gtar seems to take about 18 hours in total to back up.
It's pulling the data off of a NetApp filer connected to the AMANDA server using Gigabit Ethernet. The total amount of data is like 120GB and I'm using a Quantum SDLT-220 drive. I'm not sure what could be causing this slowness in the backup. It seems to take like 6 hours to calculate the file list alone for this partition and the other drives/partitions that don't host Maildirs get have L0s done fine in like 2-3 hours at most so I would think it's because Maildir simply has so many files. Any good alternatives to gtar? Any commandline parameters to try to make the list creation be done more quickly or not done at all if possible? Thanks for any advice! -- Mark Hennessy
