Amanda-Users

Re: AW: DUMP and GNUTAR fail if backup > about 50GB

2006-02-09 02:34:36
Subject: Re: AW: DUMP and GNUTAR fail if backup > about 50GB
From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <sgw AT amanda DOT org>
To: Sebastian Koesters <skoesters AT sino DOT de>
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:29:45 +0100
Sebastian Koesters schrieb:

> - what is the size of your holding disk (for my "normal" backups i do not
> use any holding disk)

see below

> - is the directory you are backing up really called /pst and is on
>   host pst and is there 80GB of data under that one directory (yes it is
> called pst...both. The 80GB are splittet in the 20 subdirectorys under pst)

I'd recommend to create separate DLEs for these somehow, using the
mentioned in/exclude-patterns.

>   run amdump manually, what are the results, how long does it take,
>   and what files collect in the debug dirs (its not possible to try to
> backup at work time. The Backup must run at night. When it runs it takes
> about 11 hours)

--------^^

Sounds as if a holdingdisk might be worth a thought ...
Stefan