>>>>> "Jon" == Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> writes:

    Jon> So far your DLE's seem ok to me.  The one part I question is
    Jon> "global".  What is your global definition?  Is it even
    Jon> specifying GNUTAR as the dump program?

My global is:

define dumptype global {
    comment "Global definitions"
    index yes
    compress none
    program "GNUTAR"
    dumpcycle 4
}

I'm thinking about changing the compress to something different from
none, disable the hardware compression (don't know how yet), and let
amanda manage the tape size in a more informed way. Maybe I'll have to
run tapetype again with the hardware compression disabled to get a
more precise measurement of the tape capacity.

I get the following dump summary:
                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS 
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
omni         /           1  685840 685840   --    3:223397.6   3:223394.9
omni         /boot       1      10     10   --    0:00 130.5   0:03   2.9
omni         /home/ag    1    2120   2120   --    0:011588.8   0:011673.3
omni         /home/hm    0 74406807440680   --   17:387029.5  44:382778.5
omni         /home/nt    0 1575509015755090   --   32:398043.1  92:552825.9
omni         /home/uz    1    8120   8120   --    0:023384.3   0:023687.6
omni         /root       1     330    330   --    0:001879.1   0:01 293.9
omni         /usr        1   55220  55220   --    0:381435.3   0:134100.1
omni         -ap/user/ag 1      10     10   --    0:00 206.7   0:03   3.0
omni         -ap/user/hm 1      10     10   --    0:00 195.1   0:03   3.1
omni         -ap/user/nt 1      10     10   --    0:00 118.8   0:04   2.7
omni         -ap/user/uz 1  119180 119180   --    0:313807.1   0:333635.5

where the -ap/user/* disks (except the last one) always get about
10K since ever.

What's wrong with my "global" and/or DLE?

Cheers,

Rodrigo

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