On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 10:11:42AM -0500, Michael D Schleif enlightened us:
> I am certain that this is a misunderstanding on my part ;>
> 
> How can Dump Time be *GREATER THAN* Run Time?
> 
>       STATISTICS:
>                                 Total       Full      Daily
>                               --------   --------   --------
>       Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:17
>       Run Time (hrs:min)         9:40
>       Dump Time (hrs:min)       12:12      12:10       0:02
> 
> 
> Clearly, this backup did *NOT* take anywhere near twelve (12) hours.
> So, what is that Dump Time value?
> 

Dump time is how long it would have taken had all of the dumps been
serialized. You can look at this and smile that you've shaved 2.5 hours off
your time by parallelizing with amanda. 

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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