Hi folks,

I was having estimation timeout failures, so based on advice from this group (thanks), I increased the etimout value in amanda.conf from 600 to 6000. Yay, now my backups work! But I am frankly astonished at the fact that estimation took almost twice as long as the actual dump. Is this normal, or is there some way to speed this up?

Another concern is that the k/s rate is so slow. We are backing to an LTO-L1 drive which in normal use seems to run at about twice the reported speed. Does Amanda have a lot of overhead that is slowing things down? I guess I should do a straight gnu-tar dump and compare the transfer rates.

We are dumping from a Linux RH 8 system. Amanda report details follow. Thanks for any light you can shed on this.

STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    6:07
Run Time (hrs:min)         9:40
Dump Time (hrs:min)        3:33       3:33       0:00
Output Size (meg)      124185.9   124185.9        0.0
Original Size (meg)    124185.9   124185.9        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         --
Filesystems Dumped            4          4          0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      9949.6     9949.6        --

Tape Time (hrs:min)        3:33       3:33       0:00
Tape Size (meg)        124185.9   124185.9        0.0
Tape Used (%)              60.6       60.6        0.0
Filesystems Taped             4          4          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)  9948.6     9948.6        --

USAGE BY TAPE:
  Label               Time      Size      %    Nb
  DailySet1-007       3:33  124185.9   60.6     4

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