RE: amanda taking way to long to finish

2010-06-02 Thread McGraw, Robert P
ailto:martin...@zmanda.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:11 PM > To: McGraw, Robert P > Cc: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' > Subject: Re: amanda taking way to long to finish > > > Robert, > > You are using calcsize for the estimate, it doesn't use chec

Re: amanda taking way to long to finish

2010-06-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
Robert, We have the following code in our amanda.conf, as Jean-Louis said the new line is the check-device property. define application-tool app_amgtar { comment "amgtar" plugin "amgtar" property "ATIME-PRESERVE" "no" property "CHECK-DEVICE" "no" # property "PFEXEC" "YES" # property "P

Re: amanda taking way to long to finish

2010-06-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Robert, You are using calcsize for the estimate, it doesn't use check the device number. But when you do the backup, tar check the device, as you mount it every time, it have different device number and it backup all files. Set the "CHECK-DEVICE" property of amgtar to "NO". (man amgtar) Jean

Re: amanda taking way to long to finish

2010-06-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
We had an issue where the incrementals where about the same size as the level 0 dumps. The snapshots where causing the files to have different device id numbers each night, and so appeared as new files. If you'd like I can dig out my notes on the issue, we updated our version of gtar and set an

amanda taking way to long to finish

2010-06-02 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am running amanda 2.6.1P2 on a Solaris 10 X86 system. I have recently upgraded to 2.6.1P2 as the amanda server and move from a SPARC to a X86 system running Solaris 10. Compared to when it was running on an old SPARC system, I am finding that amanda is taking way to long to finish an using t