Okay...fixed the columspec (guess we'll see when I run it again)...

It took 1 minute 47seconds to tar the entire disk to /dev/null...

This machine really isn't doing anything, it's basically a file server
for our graphic personnel....



-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:jlb17 AT duke DOT edu] 
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:24 PM
To: Michael Packer
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: amanda: more on taking forever to do a full backup

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 at 2:13pm, Michael Packer wrote

> No compression....i don't understand why it takes so long to dump?
> On the other machine we have running Amanda it dumps 5 gig in 25
> minutes....what should I look for? I'm at a total loss...

First off, play with the columnspec parameter in amanda.conf to make the

emails actually readable.  Please.

> Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:15
> Run Time (hrs:min)         8:45
> Dump Time (hrs:min)        8:25       8:25       0:00
> Output Size (meg)       28778.8    28778.8        0.0
> Original Size (meg)     28778.8    28778.8        0.0
*snip*

HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS
KB/s
-------------------------- ---------------------------------
------------
localhost    sda2        0 878130 878144   --    4:24 3331.3   4:25
3312.8
localhost    sda3        0   3830   3840   --    0:01 5287.9   0:04
924.5
localhost    sda5     0 2801327028013280   --  492:35  947.8 492:37
947.8
localhost    sda7        0  385930 385952   --   2:21 2734.8   2:24
2675.2
localhost    sda8        0  185380 185408   --   0:28 6595.3   0:53
3504.5
localhost    sda9        0    1830   1856   --   0:01 2449.6   0:03
634.7
localhost    sdb1        0    1140   1152   --   5:22    3.5   0:03
396.3

I cleaned up your report a bit.  Note that sda5 is the majority of your 
space, but has the slowest dump rate -- very slow, in fact.  Look into 
that.  SCSI bus contention?  Bad drive?  Anything in the system logs?
How 
fast can you 'tar c > /dev/null' that drive?

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University