You have enough amanda work area to allow more than 5 concurrent
dumps to run. This is a separate issue, the second half of the
graph, the 1st half, estimate phase you already have far more capable
help on than I can give.

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:38:29PM -0500, FM wrote:
> here is some info :
> 
> We have performance problem with a 47 GB partition (on the backup server).
> OS : Linux Redhat Enterprise AS 3 V4
> Version : amanda-2.4.4p1
> 
> /dev/cciss/c1d0p2     160G   56G   97G  37% /amanda
> 
> inparallel 50
> netusage  30000
> maxdumps 5
> 
> holdingdisk hd1 {
>      comment "main holding disk"
>      directory "/amanda/daily"
>      use -50 Mb
>      chunksize 4 Gb
> (...)
> }
> Can force the backup order so this partition is the first one to be backup ?
> 
> thanks !
> 
> 
> Brian Cuttler wrote:
> > No bandwidth utilized ?
> > 
> > Seem to have pleanty of holding disk.
> > 
> > I think I missed the start of the thread, how many client
> > systems ? What are maxdumps and inparallel set to ?
> > 
> > What is your compression algorithm ? client/server/hw/none ?
> > Or some mixture of client/server/none for different clients ?
> > 
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> >    Brian R Cuttler                 brian.cuttler AT wadsworth DOT org
> >    Computer Systems Support        (v) 518 486-1697
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   Brian R Cuttler                 brian.cuttler AT wadsworth DOT org
   Computer Systems Support        (v) 518 486-1697
   Wadsworth Center                (f) 518 473-6384
   NYS Department of Health        Help Desk 518 473-0773