John Heim wrote: > I'm having trouble making backups because the estimates are taking too long. > I inherited an amanda backup setup and my predecessor had already increased > the etimeout to 1800. I doubled it to 3600 and I was still getting timeout > warnings at the top of the email when I did an amdump. So I doubled it again > and now it's been running for 3 days. > > I saw in the amanda.conf man page that there's an 'estimate' directive. > Values are client, calcsize, and server. But amdump complains when I add the > directive to amanda.conf saying, "configuration keyword expected". I'm > pretty sure the spelling is right since I cut and pasted right from the man > page. > # Do faster estimates > estimate calcsize
Did you put it in a dumptype definition where it belongs, or did you try it as a global option where it can't work? If you just search for estimate in the man page it's easy to overlook that it is only valid inside a dumptype definition. > > Questions: > 1. Is something wrong with my setup that it takes that long to do the > estimates? Possibly, but more likely you just have busy disks and/or a filesystem with a lot of small files. > 2. Can I spped up the estimates? Use 'estimate calcsize'. Good luck, Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
