>>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu> writes:

Jack> I've set up amanda and it runs fine, except I only get one
Jack> dumper running at any given time.  I have eight partitions, two
Jack> holding disks, and a single HP C1557A tape drive.  I have
Jack> inparallel set to 4 and dumporder set to "sssS".  Is there any
Jack> reason why I have only one dumper running?

Joshua> By default, amanda only runs one dump per client.  Increase
Joshua> 'maxdumps' in amanda.conf to change this.

This worked exactly as expected.  Of course, performance stunk, as
those eight partitions are on only two disks.  Looks like I need to
read the documentation and add spindles.

Thanks for the help!

Jack.
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