Re: Estimates taking a long time..

On 5/26/06, Matt Ingram <mingram AT cbnco DOT com> wrote:

One of our amanda clients takes an incredibly long time to do estimates
(17000seconds on a level 0, which is about 210GB), and causes the server
to return a estimate timeout error.  Seems to be mainly when it tries to
do a level 0 backup.  the server that takes this amount of time is
accessed through a firewall.


Check the /tmp/amanda/sendsize* logs for any reasons why it is taking too long.
You can try running the tar (I'm assuming that you are using tar not
dump) command
manually.


Is that a typical amount of time, or is something taking WAY too long?
Should I just increase the etimeout in amanda.conf to facilitate the
17000 seconds ?


You could also change "estimate" value to "calcsize" or "server" for
faster estimates (estimates will be less accurate).

See 
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amdump:_results_missing#Timeout_during_estimate.3F
for more information.

Thanks,
Paddy


running amanda-2.4.4-41
tar-1.13.25-97
on SuSE

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