My config is the following:

Amanda server runs on the same machine (i.e. the tape drive, which is a HP
DLT 40/80GB attached directly to this server). I can succesfully backup
other parttitions from the same machine as well as from other clients. I
can also backup a single home directory (I've tested with /home/kato) from
the /home partition succesfully. However, when the full /home directory is
listed in disklist, the backup runs forever (well, we have stopped it
after 10+ hours) and no partitions are backed up (I guess Amanda waits for
all partitions before starting any backup).

I've mentioned the number of i-nodes as the size of the partition is not
that big but we have about 3000 users so the 50 GB is made up of many
small files. Hence if anything is special about this partition then it is
the number of files.


I attach the amanda.conf and disklist files to my email.

Thanks again for any help,

Zoltan

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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

> Hi, Zoltan,
>
> on Dienstag, 11. November 2003 at 17:22 you wrote to amanda-users:
>
> ZK> I'm trying to backup a home partition with amanda under Sun Solaris 9 with
> ZK> Amanda version 2.4.4p1:
>
> ZK> Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
> ZK> /dev/md/dsk/d0         102G    50G    51G    50%    /home
>
> ZK> which contains a lot of i-nodes:
>
> ZK> Filesystem             iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted on
> ZK> /dev/md/dsk/d0       2932711 9923481    23%   /home
>
>
> ZK> I can write it to tape in ~5-6 hours using plain gtar but amanda seems to
> ZK> be busy for several hours (10+) without writing anything to tape. Is there
> ZK> a workaround to get the partition backed up? Why amanda is so slow? Is it
> ZK> related to the number of i-nodes or the size of the partition?
>
> I donŽt know why you think of i-nodes in this case.
>
> Please tell us more about your amanda.conf, disklist and stuff. Also
> tell us if your Amanda-setup works for other disks.
>
> Do you use a holdingdisk?
>
> More infos will help us to help you.
>
> --
> best regards,
> Stefan
>
> Stefan G. Weichinger
> mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at
>
>
>

amanda.conf
Description: Amanda config file

disklist
Description: disklist