On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Russell Adams wrote:

> The host runs OpenVMS, and the only reason this is relevant is because
> I'm constantly wishing I could run AMANDA on this platform. VMS's
> BACKUP utility doesn't support compression, or anything else for that
> matter. Our backups are done by custom scripts. If I ran Tru64 or
> Linux on these, I'd be using AMANDA.
> [...] 
> In uncompressed mode I get 4-5MB/s, in compressed its 800KB/s. Sad
> really.

Definitely something wrong here. I am using VMS BACKUP to write to some
TZ89 drives from an ES40 using hardware compression. I get on average
about 8 MB/sec. The system has six TZ89 drives on two buses and can write
at that speed to all six simultaneously.

Steve
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