Sorry for the delay here.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Matt Burkhardt <mlb AT imparisystems DOT com> 
wrote:
> I'm not too sure what's going on - it takes about 10 days to run the
> backup.  Here's the results from the run that started on 12/27 and the
> results from amstatus on the backup that started running yesterday.  I
> checked S3, and it used up a little over 5000 "tapes".  Is there a time /
> amount limit?

5000 tapes?  But your tapecycle is only 14.. do you mean 5000 S3 objects?

You're getting ~60k/s.  That's a little slow -- I get 115k/s on my
home system (Comcast) and 179k/s on a business DSL in Cleveland -- but
even tripling your speed will still leave you taking ~100h to upload
56G.  S3 backups are more appropriate to data sizes around 1-2G/night
(about a 7 hour backup window at your speed).  There's just no good
way to upload 56G "quickly," unless you have a very fat pipe[1].

Dustin

[1] And my experiments on such a fat pipe show that Amazon has some
kind of rate limits, too, so even this isn't a great solution.  My
tests were done two years ago, so I'd be curious to know if this is
still true.

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