Well this time ... I removed the large disk so I could run it a couple
times today and see what numbers I was getting.  I also removed the
holding disk since the tape and drives are all on the same machine...

Dump time is down a good bit....

1 more question...what is "estimate time"? 



STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:32
Run Time (hrs:min)         0:52
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:20       0:20       0:00
Output Size (meg)        1422.2     1422.2        0.0
Original Size (meg)      1422.2     1422.2        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         -- 
Filesystems Dumped            6          6          0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      1198.4     1198.4        -- 

Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:20       0:20       0:00
Tape Size (meg)          1422.3     1422.3        0.0
Tape Used (%)               3.7        3.7        0.0
Filesystems Taped             6          6          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)  1194.5     1194.5        -- 

USAGE BY TAPE:
  Label                 Time      Size      %    Nb
  DailySet1Daily3       0:20    1422.3    3.7     6


NOTES:
  taper: tape DailySet1Daily3 kb 1456640 fm 6 [OK]


DUMP SUMMARY:
                                        DUMPER STATS
TAPER STATS   
HOSTNAME   DISK   L ORIG-KB  OUT-KB COMP%   MMM:SS     KB/s     MMM:SS
KB/s
----------------------- ---------------------------------------------
----------------
localhost  sda2   0 878130  878144   --      9:40   1514.3       9:40
1513.0
localhost  sda3   0   3830    3840   --      0:03   1204.4       0:04
904.9
localhost  sda7   0 385910  385920   --      1:36   4005.7       1:37
3981.4
localhost  sda8   0 185380  185408   --      3:31    879.3       3:31
878.6
localhost  sda9   0   1990    2016   --      0:01   1875.8       0:03
771.4
localhost  sdb1   0   1100    1120   --      5:24      3.4       5:24
3.5

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-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:jlb17 AT duke DOT edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:22 AM
To: Michael Packer
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: amanda: running forever..update

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 at 8:22am, Michael Packer wrote

> The changes took it from 8+ hours to 4:45.... still would like to get
it

What changes?

> down a bit more... I still have a problem with compsec (made a typo)
so
> I reformatted it by hand.
> 
> Questions... 
> 
> would it be beneficial to break /sda5 down into different disks
> (I was looking at the sample disklist and saw you can do things like
> /sda5/x /sda5/x2 /sda5/x3 ... etc).   Currently it's creating 56 500mb
> chunks
>
> is it better not to create these chunks?

*snip*

> Run Time (hrs:min)         4:45
> Dump Time (hrs:min)        2:23       2:23       0:00

*snip*
> HOSTNAME   DISK L ORIG-KB    OUT-KB COMP%   MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
> ----------------- ------------ ------------
> localhost  sda2 0   878130   878144   --    4:29   3264.2   6:17
2327.0
> localhost  sda3 0     3830     3840   --    0:01   3818.4   0:04
927.2
> localhost  sda5 0 28012880 28012896   --  132:42   3518.4 125:34
3718.2

I'm assuming that the tape drive is on localhost?  If so, don't even 
bother with the holding disk -- it's only slowing you down (see how run 
time is roughly 2X dump time).  That should get your runs down to 
basically the dump time listed above.

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