On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:16:25PM -0600, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Are the disks IDE rather than SCSI?  I find the Solaris IDE disk driver 
to be terribly slow.

But several hours does seem too slow.

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