On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 at 1:16pm, Kathy Ange wrote

> I am a newbie, I have just run my fist dump on the
> server only, and it is taking way to long.  So I
> figure I have something configured incorrectly.  I
> tried looking in FAQ but didn't see anything, so here
> I am.  I know it takes to long As I ran a manual
> backup (ufsdump line commands) of the same area and it
> only took 12 minutes,using amanda over 90 minutes.

*snip*

> #########  Amanda Server Dump Types ##################
> # this is for regular partitions on the amanda server
> define dumptype Scomp {
>     comment "Amanda Server filesystem"
>     compress server best
>     index yes
>     strategy standard 
>     priority medium 
> }

> Here is my disklist file
> # hostname    diskdevice      dumptype        spindle interface
> strawbwrries  /export/home    Scomp
> strawberries  /               Scomp-nohold

When you tested by hand with ufsdump, did you include a pipe to 'gzip 
--best'?  That gzip may *really* be slowing you down.  You could try 
'compress server fast'.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University