Re: very slow dumper (42.7KB/s)

2009-09-02 Thread Tom Robinson
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Tom Robinson > wrote: > >> While the disk is reaching saturation (and recovering quickly) I'm >> thinking that the all the retransmissions would be slowing things down more. >> >> I don't see any errors on the client interface but th

Re: very slow dumper (42.7KB/s)

2009-08-31 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: > While the disk is reaching saturation (and recovering quickly) I'm > thinking that the all the retransmissions would be slowing things down more. > > I don't see any errors on the client interface but there are four on the > server interface o

Re: very slow dumper (42.7KB/s)

2009-08-31 Thread Tom Robinson
Frank Smith wrote: > Tom Robinson wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I'm running amanda (2.6.0p2-1) but have an older client running > >>> 2.4.2p2-1. On that client the full backup of a 4GB disk takes a very > >>> long time: > >>> > >>> DUMP SUMMARY: > >>>

Re: very slow dumper (42.7KB/s)

2009-08-31 Thread Frank Smith
Try looking on the client while the backup is running. Could be any of a lot of things. Network problems (check for errors on the NIC and the switch port), lack of CPU to run the compression, disk I/O contention, huge numbers of files (either in aggregate or in a single directory), or possibly eve

Re: very slow dumper (42.7KB/s)

2009-08-31 Thread Tom Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Robinson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running amanda (2.6.0p2-1) but have an older client running > 2.4.2p2-1. On that client the full backup of a 4GB disk takes a very > long time: > > DUMP SUMMARY: >DUM

very slow dumper (42.7KB/s)

2009-08-30 Thread Tom Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm running amanda (2.6.0p2-1) but have an older client running 2.4.2p2-1. On that client the full backup of a 4GB disk takes a very long time: DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER

Re: Slow dumper

2003-04-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
On Tue May 28 2002 05:09, Bartho Saaiman wrote: I have a problem where my dumper is slow and the taper seems to be faster: STATISTICS: Total Full Daily Estimate Time (hrs:min)0:02 Run Time (hrs:min)

Re: Slow dumper

2003-04-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wed April 2 2003 22:12, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 at 9:29pm, Gene Heskett wrote > >> On Tue May 28 2002 05:09, Bartho Saaiman wrote: >> >I have a problem where my dumper is slow and the taper seems to >> > be faster: >> > >> > >> >STATISTICS: >> > T

Re: Slow dumper

2003-04-02 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 at 9:29pm, Gene Heskett wrote > On Tue May 28 2002 05:09, Bartho Saaiman wrote: > >I have a problem where my dumper is slow and the taper seems to be > > faster: > > > > > >STATISTICS: > > Total Full Daily > >

Re: Slow dumper

2003-04-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tue May 28 2002 05:09, Bartho Saaiman wrote: >I have a problem where my dumper is slow and the taper seems to be > faster: > > >STATISTICS: > Total Full Daily > >Estimate Time (hrs:min)0:02 >Run Time

Re: Slow dumper

2002-10-16 Thread Frank Smith
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 05:09, Bartho Saaiman wrote: >I have a problem where my dumper is slow and the taper seems to be faster: > > > STATISTICS: >Total Full Daily > > Estimate Time (hrs:min)0:02 > R

Re: Slow dumper

2002-10-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 05:09, Bartho Saaiman wrote: > I have a problem where my dumper is slow and the taper seems to be faster: > > > STATISTICS: >Total Full Daily > > Estimate Time (hrs:min)0:02 >

Re: Slow dumper

2002-05-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 28 May 2002 at 3:14pm, Ulrik Sandberg wrote > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 May 2002 at 11:09am, Bartho Saaiman wrote > > ... > > > Filesystems Dumped1 1 0 > > > > The first thing to do, if at all possible, is to use a hold

Re: Slow dumper

2002-05-28 Thread Ulrik Sandberg
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2002 at 11:09am, Bartho Saaiman wrote > ... > > Filesystems Dumped1 1 0 > > The first thing to do, if at all possible, is to use a holding disk. > Given that your run time=dump time+tape time, it appear

Re: Slow dumper

2002-05-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 28 May 2002 at 2:59pm, Bartho Saaiman wrote > I am using: Are you doing any sort of software RAID over all those disks? What's your CPU speed? Basically, I would run some tar tests (with gzip -- you can see the exact command amanda runs in /tmp/amanda/sendbackup*debug) and see what k

Re: Slow dumper

2002-05-28 Thread Bartho Saaiman
I am using: [bartho@caepdc amanda]$ uname -a Linux caepdc.cae.sun.ac.za 2.4.18-6mdk #1 Fri Mar 15 02:59:08 CET 2002 i686 unknown [bartho@caepdc amanda]$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DDYS-T36950M Rev: S96H Type:

Re: Slow dumper

2002-05-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 28 May 2002 at 2:47pm, Bartho Saaiman wrote > I am using a dump disk and these backups are all local. I am using the > following compressions to ensure that the data actually fits on a disk. > What's your hardware? What OS? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering

Re: Slow dumper

2002-05-28 Thread Bartho Saaiman
Hi Joshua I am using a dump disk and these backups are all local. I am using the following compressions to ensure that the data actually fits on a disk. define dumptype tgz-best { program "GNUTAR" options compress-best, index priority high dumpcycle 0 } define dumptype tgz-

Re: Slow dumper

2002-05-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 28 May 2002 at 11:09am, Bartho Saaiman wrote > I have a problem where my dumper is slow and the taper seems to be faster: > > > STATISTICS: >Total Full Daily > > Estimate Time (hrs:min)0:0

Slow dumper

2002-05-28 Thread Bartho Saaiman
I have a problem where my dumper is slow and the taper seems to be faster: STATISTICS: Total Full Daily Estimate Time (hrs:min)0:02 Run Time (hrs:min)11:21 Dump Time (hrs:min)9:42