I have a system and I am attempting to backup a filesystem with
approximately 30G of data.  The estimates for a Level 0 take 3000
seconds.  For a level 1, 7000 seconds.  Is two hours just to get an
estimate for an incremental dump?  Is it typical to have to bump up the
estimate timeouts to several hours?  I just want to make sure that what
I am seeing is "normal".  It seems like an awful lot of churning just to
estimate a dump size.  This happens to be my only Solaris system being
backed up.  On a linux system, I'm backing up an area approx. twice the
size with no estimate timeouts.  That may or may not have any relevance,
but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Here is the log:

# more /tmp/amanda/sendsize.20040106015552.debug
sendsize: debug 1 pid 13149 ruid 12167 euid 12167: start at Tue Jan  6
01:55:52 2004
sendsize: version 2.4.4p1
sendsize[13149]: time 0.020: waiting for any estimate child
sendsize[13151]: time 0.020: calculating for amname '/export/home',
dirname '/export/home', spindle -1
sendsize[13151]: time 0.022: getting size via gnutar for /export/home
level 0
sendsize[13151]: time 0.026: spawning /usr/local/libexec/runtar in
pipeline
sendsize[13151]: argument list: /opt/gnu/bin/gtar --create --file
/dev/null --directory /export/home --one-file-system
--listed-incremental
/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/ardra_export_home_0.new --sparse
--ignore-failed-read --totals .
sendsize[13151]: time 3010.735: Total bytes written: 32350668800
sendsize[13151]: time 3010.778: .....
sendsize[13151]: estimate time for /export/home level 0: 3010.752
sendsize[13151]: estimate size for /export/home level 0: 31592450 KB
sendsize[13151]: time 3010.778: waiting for /opt/gnu/bin/gtar
"/export/home" child
sendsize[13151]: time 3010.811: after /opt/gnu/bin/gtar "/export/home"
wait
sendsize[13151]: time 3010.812: getting size via gnutar for /export/home
level 1
sendsize[13151]: time 3012.130: spawning /usr/local/libexec/runtar in
pipeline
sendsize[13151]: argument list: /opt/gnu/bin/gtar --create --file
/dev/null --directory /export/home --one-file-system
--listed-incremental
/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/ardra_export_home_1.new --sparse
--ignore-failed-read --totals .
sendsize[13151]: time 7024.171: Total bytes written: 93440000
sendsize[13151]: time 7024.173: .....
sendsize[13151]: estimate time for /export/home level 1: 4012.052
sendsize[13151]: estimate size for /export/home level 1: 91250 KB
sendsize[13151]: time 7024.173: waiting for /opt/gnu/bin/gtar
"/export/home" child
sendsize[13151]: time 7024.241: after /opt/gnu/bin/gtar "/export/home"
wait
sendsize[13151]: time 7024.241: done with amname '/export/home', dirname
'/export/home', spindle -1
sendsize[13149]: time 7024.247: child 13151 terminated normally
sendsize: time 7024.247: pid 13149 finish time Tue Jan  6 03:52:56 2004
 
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Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama - Birmingham
fran AT cis.uab DOT edu
(205) 934-0653