On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Mike Fahey <mfahey AT enter DOT net> wrote:
> Amanda is taking a very long time to write the dumps.
>
> My inparallel setting is set to 50.
>
> Amanda has all data waiting to be backed up in /hold.
>
> What are other people running inparallel at?
>
> If I got 500gb < 8hours in /hold whats a reasonable setting to
> set inparallel at ?

Inparallel controls the number of dumps that are done in parallel, not
the number of files written to tape.  So it sounds like your
inparallel is not the issue here.  You should be looking into tweaking
your tape drive's performance.

Dustin

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