Using gtar might help also.



On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 12:20, Amy Tanner wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 01:06:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett (gene_heskett AT 
> iolinc DOT net) wrote:
> > It rather sounds like you need to allow more time for the process to 
> > run.  Thats configurable with a couple of variables in your 
> > amanda.conf file, along with some explanatory test describing them.
> 
> I did check the dtimeout value.  It was set to 3600, which seemed like it
> should be enough.  I'll increase it to 7200 and see what happens.
> 
> If the dump is timing out, shouldn't amanda properly kill the processes
> though?
> 
> > >I'm using dump with hardware compression (no software compression) > > on
> all machines & file systems.  > > The use of hardware compression as opposed
> to software compression > can also be a course of 'gotchas'.  When hardware
> compression is > used, amanda doesn't have a very good idea how much data
> a tape can > hold, so you have to set the tape capacities conservatively,
> which > on big tapes can result in gigabytes of under utilization.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I've read about the advantages of software compression over
> hardware compression and I agree.  I'm not the primary amanda
> administrator - I'm just filling in while he's gone and attempting to
> fix the problems - but I will make the recommendation to switch.
> 
> Will the using hardware compression cause the dumps to take longer?
> We recently switched to hardware compression because we got a new tape
> changer.  Perhaps that's the cause of the problems.  These 2 machines
> were not having problems previously when we were doing software
> compression for everything.
> 
> Thank you for your recommendations - I appreciate it.
> -- 
> Amy Tanner
> amy AT real-time DOT com