On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:41, David Trusty wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a number of disks which are being backed-up from a single
> host. The disks have many thousands of files in many directories.
>
>When I run the backup, the planner seems to sequentially examine
> each of the disks for updates.
>This planning stage takes many hours.  Is there any way to
> parallelize it, or otherwise speed it up?
>
>Thanks in advance!

This is what the optional spndle number is supposed to do in your 
disklist entries.  Give each physical disk its own spindle number.  
Make sure that MAXDUMPERS or whatever its called (in amanda.conf) is 
sufficient that one can be running against each disk.

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