On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:58:04PM -0500, Shawn Sanders wrote:
> 
> So that took about 2 hours 40 minutes.  Would that require the etimeout to
> be upped to ~9000?
> 

The timeout gets multiplied with the number of filesystems and levels.
I would set it to an hour for the next run.

> Currently the etimeout and the dtimeout are at the defaults, 300 and 1800.
> 

You should also increase dtimeout, since tar might take more than half an hour
before it starts writing output data. An hour might be a good start too.

> You mentioned I should look into a newer tar version.  Currently I have
> 1.13.19.  I have not found
> a Solaris source for 1.13.25 as of yet.  Maybe that would speed things up.

IIRC the main speedup was between 1.12 and 1.13.
You can find the new one under http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/

   Ciao
      Dietmar

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