Frank, > Do you have a duplex mismatch or other errors on the network interface > or switch port?
No error visible. A manual transfer was also very slow, a reboot of the machine solved that. > Are you seeing any system messages about read errors on your disks? > Have you recently changed OS/kernel/tar versions? Nothing changed for a good while, only I did reboot the network equipment some time last week. I beleive the duplex did not get negociated properly after reboot. > What does the Amanda report show for dumper time and taper time for > the DLE? HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -------------------------- -------------------------------------- ------------- mailback / 0 45080 18784 41.7 41:51 7.5 0:10 1870.1 mailback /home 2 187190 106368 56.8 213:06 8.3 0:30 3489.2 mailback /usr 0 FAILED --------------------------------------------- mailback /var 0 43080 6752 15.7 49:43 2.3 0:07 956.0 That's yucky :) OK that was only a network problem it seems. Thanks, Olivier