On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:05:19PM +0100, Alexander Jolk wrote:
> I thought that by giving different spindle numbers to [NFS-mounted DLEs], 
> amanda
> would back them up in parallel (barring holding disk contention of
> course).

By default, Amanda will only back up one DLE *per client* at a
time.  You can fix that with the "maxdumps" parameter in
amanda.conf, either globally or per-dumptype.

"inparallel", by contrast, controls overall parallelism among the
different clients.  Before a new dump will start, among other
constraints, there have to be fewer than "inparallel" dumps
already running overall, *and* fewer than "maxdumps" dumps
running on the client in question.

The "client-constrained" state happens when either the "maxdumps"
condition or the DLEs-per-spindle condition (which you've already
dealt with) fails; if the "inparallel" condition fails, you get a
different state reported -- "no-dumpers" I think.
 
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