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RE: amanda: more on taking forever to do a full backup
2003-06-16 14:48:10
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 at 2:43pm, Michael Packer wrote
> Okay...fixed the columspec (guess we'll see when I run it again)...
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> It took 1 minute 47seconds to tar the entire disk to /dev/null...
Careful with that. GNUtar notes when the output is /dev/null and doesn't
*really* read everything off disk. To fool it, you'd do something like
this (from the root of the filesystem):
tar cO . | cat > /dev/null
Obviously, if you're using dump rather than tar, test with that instead.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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