The changes took it from 8+ hours to 4:45.... still would like to get it
down a bit more... I still have a problem with compsec (made a typo) so
I reformatted it by hand.

Questions... 

would it be beneficial to break /sda5 down into different disks
(I was looking at the sample disklist and saw you can do things like
/sda5/x /sda5/x2 /sda5/x3 ... etc).   Currently it's creating 56 500mb
chunks

is it better not to create these chunks?

STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:15
Run Time (hrs:min)         4:45
Dump Time (hrs:min)        2:23       2:23       0:00
Output Size (meg)       28778.4    28778.4        0.0
Original Size (meg)     28778.4    28778.4        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         -- 
Filesystems Dumped            7          7          0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      3439.2     3439.2        -- 

Tape Time (hrs:min)        2:15       2:15       0:00
Tape Size (meg)         28778.5    28778.5        0.0
Tape Used (%)              72.1       72.1        0.0
Filesystems Taped             7          7          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)  3634.1     3634.1        -- 

USAGE BY TAPE:
  Label             Time      Size      %    Nb
  DailySet102       2:15   28778.5   72.1     7

DUMP SUMMARY:
                 DUMPER STATS  TAPER STATS 
HOSTNAME   DISK L ORIG-KB    OUT-KB COMP%   MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
----------------- ------------ ------------
localhost  sda2 0   878130   878144   --    4:29   3264.2   6:17 2327.0
localhost  sda3 0     3830     3840   --    0:01   3818.4   0:04  927.2
localhost  sda5 0 28012880 28012896   --  132:42   3518.4 125:34 3718.2
localhost  sda7 0   385760   385760   --    2:25   2657.5   2:22 2713.1
localhost  sda8 0   185380   185408   --    0:21   8983.4   0:46 4073.1
localhost  sda9 0     2010     2016   --    0:01   2720.4   0:03  685.2
localhost  sdb1 0     1140     1152   --    2:50      6.7   0:03  395.6

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