On Thursday 23 September 2004 11:01, Ivan Petrovich wrote: >Paul, Jon, & Gene, > >My claim was based on experience of running a test configuration > once, and observing an 8-hr run time, then after turning off > software compression, observing that the time was reduced in half. > I immediately abandoned software compression. > >Are you suggesting that once Amanda has run once (for 8 hrs, using >gzip both in "estimate" and "dump"), it should not need to run gzip >for the estimate phase ever again, and will therefore only take the >"normal" amount of time (4 hrs, using gzip only for "dump") to >run? > >Thanks, > >Ivan
While I'm not familiar with your setup Ivan, an 8 hour runtime would seem to indicate configuration problems, like doing all compression on the server rather than offloading it to the clients, possibly a high rate of network errors due to bad cabling or any combination of all the things that Murphy guy can dream up. Its somewhat of an unwritten rule that a drive big enough to do the system at hand will usually do it in about 2 to 3 hours if all else is nominal. If it can't, then its time for a bigger, faster drive. You might consider posting the amanda.conf and your disklist to see if someone can suggest improvements. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
