Hi,

I'm currently using Amanda to backup 4 servers (three Solaris boxes and one 
Fedora Core 3).  They are all running Amanda 2.4.4p4.  I have a problem with 
one of the clients being MUCH slower than the others.  I was wondering if 
anyone could give me any pointers about where to begin poking around.

The slow client is a Sun V100 running Solaris 8.  While it is certainly a 
low-end system, it is also the newest.  According to Amanda's reports, it's 
consistently transferring dumps at around 425 to 475 KB/s.  By contrast, I have 
another client (a Sun Ultra Enterprise I running 2.6, arguably a dinosaur) that 
consisently dumps a 750 - 800 KB/s.

One thing I've thought of is the partition size.  The V100 is using the default 
partitions that the system was shipped with, the biggest of which is a 67G 
partition.  The Ultra I has a 16G partition as it's biggest.  The traffic on 
the network isn't bad when I'm doing the backups.  I'm just not sure what I 
should be looking at or for?  Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.

Duncan

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Duncan Salada
Titan Corporation
301-925-3222 x375