On Tuesday 04 November 2003 01:06, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote:
>Hello - I am making great progress with Amanda; now backing up three
>systems. (For some reason, samba backups did not work for me; but
>installing the amanda client on our windows server did the trick; I
> can backup over that). We have a dedicated machine to do the
> backups, and it backs up two unix servers (one Linux one SunOS
> 5.8), and a windows machine.
>
>One puzzling thing is that our SunOS system seems to
>take a very long time making backups. I started a full backup about
> 12 hours ago, and it's still running. If I wait long enough, it
> finishes (I did it once before), but I would like it to finish in a
> regular timeframe. There is no bottleneck as far as I can tell; the
> machines are mostly idle; the network connection is 100MB like the
> other machines. I am not very good at reading the 'amstatus' output
> so I thought I would ask for help from this very helpful group..
>
>[amanda@yedek amanda]$ amstatus home | more
>Using /usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/amdump from Mon Nov 3 23:25:26 EET
> 2003
>
>home:/etc 0 6296k finished (23:46:28)
>home:/usr/local 0 552408k finished (3:32:29)
>home:/usr/users 0 1516665k dumping to tape (3:32:29)
>home:/var/spool/mail 0 5028910k wait for dumping
You have over 5 gigabytes of mail? I find that hard to believe, not
even a major spammer would have that much.
>SUMMARY part real estimated
> size size
>partition : 4
>estimated : 4 7227450k
>flush : 0 0k
>failed : 0 0k ( 0.00%)
>wait for dumping: 1 5028910k ( 69.58%)
>dumping to tape : 1 1516665k ( 20.98%)
>dumping : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%)
>dumped : 3 2075369k 2198540k ( 94.40%) ( 28.72%)
>wait for writing: 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%)
>wait to flush : 0 0k 0k (100.00%) ( 0.00%)
>writing to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%)
>failed to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%)
>taped : 2 558704k 681875k ( 81.94%) ( 7.73%)
>3 dumpers idle : not-idle
>taper writing, tapeq: 0
>network free kps: 6570
>holding space : 0k ( 0.00%)
> dumper0 busy : 4:03:57 (100.00%)
> taper busy : 4:03:57 (100.00%)
> 0 dumpers busy : 0:00:00 ( 0.00%)
> 1 dumper busy : 4:03:57 (100.00%) not-idle: 4:03:57
> (100.00%)
>
>I just checked the 'home' system; the one that's being backed up,
> and it shows that 'tar' is running, likewise for two 'sendbackup'
> processes. The last entry in /tmp/amanda belongs to amandad, and it
> has not been updated for about 4 hours. it reads:
>CONNECT DATA 921 MESG 922 INDEX 923
>OPTIONS features=fffffeff9ffe0f;
>----
>
>amandad: time 0.133: got packet:
>----
>Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 000-A8E80608 SEQ 1067894728
>----
>
>amandad: time 0.133: pid 8343 finish time Tue Nov 4 03:29:37 2003
>
>I guess this means that it finished.
>
>PS: I dont have a tape drive define; I backup to disk using the very
>useful chg-disk "changer". Therefore I did not define any holding
> disks.
>
>I'd appreciate any feedback..
>Thanks, -turgut
>
I sure don't see, from the above report, a reason it should be so
slow. Is the system quiet, or are the drives being hammered by
seeks?
Whatever you find, we would be interested in the fix for our own
edification.
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>Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com
>EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr
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