Robert Tilden wrote:

Thanks for the tips. Usually My average -compressed- backup size is ~100Gb per night and takes ~6 hours. I start at ~0100, so backups are usually done before 0700. The nights where the backup extends a few hours longer is when it's backing up some shares on older Windows machines.

And that's what I mean.  If these Windows machines are blocking
the rest, than you can tune some other parameters, like,
e.g. number of dumpers in parallel, etc., all depeding on
where is that bottleneck.  "amplot" helps you identify those.

Using a longer dumpcycle is also an option sometimes.

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