I'm seeing this problem where gtar seems to take about 18 hours in total to
back up.

It's pulling the data off of a NetApp filer connected to the AMANDA server
using Gigabit Ethernet.  The total amount of data is like 120GB and I'm using
a Quantum SDLT-220 drive.

I'm not sure what could be causing this slowness in the backup.  It seems to
take like 6 hours to calculate the file list alone for this partition and the
other drives/partitions that don't host Maildirs get have L0s done fine in
like 2-3 hours at most so I would think it's because Maildir simply has so
many files.

Any good alternatives to gtar?  Any commandline parameters to try to make the
list creation be done more quickly or not done at all if possible?

Thanks for any advice!

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 Mark Hennessy