Stefan,

Thank you, yes, I do have inparallel, set the holdingdisk size and
spindle numbers default (to -1 ?) so they shouldn't be an issue.

I think Paul had it right, I'd missed "maxdumps", I'm sure I'd
have spotted it if present as "1" but I'm running a version of
amanda.conf that doesn't include it.

We tend to carry amanda.conf forward from one version to another
even when upgrading the software itself. Probably a bad policy, I
mean it prevents typos but we end up losing out on the newer parameters
until we hit a call and have to go digging.

                                                thanks,

                                                Brian

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> Hi, Brian,
> 
> on Mittwoch, 21. J_nner 2004 at 16:57 you wrote to amanda-users:
> 
> BC> My question is why amanda isn't allowing concurrently with the larger
> BC> partitions when I'm certain we have enough spool space. 
> 
> BC> How do I do about go about finding out why these partitions aren't
> BC> dumping at the same time, actually, its just an assumption that they
> BC> aren't but given the run time of the partitions and elapse time of
> BC> the job its probably a pretty good guess.
> 
> BC> We have dumpers 4, I can include as much of the amanda.conf file as
> BC> anyone wants.
> 
> Have you TOLD AMANDA about the doubled space she can use?
> (use-parameter in the holdingdisk-section).
> 
> If you use spindle-numbers in your disklist make sure you don`t set
> the same for the both DLEs you want to parallelize.
> 
> BC> Run Time (hrs:min)        10:58
> BC> Dump Time (hrs:min)       10:18
> 
> There isn_t much parallelism going on, as these numbers tell us.
> 
> Let us see your disklist and the corresponding dumptypes as well as
> your parameter "inparallel", and the holding-disk section(s) for a
> start.
> 
> -- 
> best regards,
> Stefan
> 
> Stefan G. Weichinger
> mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at
> 
> 
>