On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> My current amanda server lives on one big 1.4TB partition on an SATA
> hardware raid controller. Copying from the holding disk to file-tapes on
> the same device has so far been limited to about 15MB/s. This seems
> quite slow to me. Does amanda add any overhead above a simple copy on
> the same device? An hdparm -t on this system when it's idle gives around
> 58MB/s.

Just for comparison...

I don't use a holding disk, but my vtapes are on the same (single) SATA disk as
the other data on my backup machine.

While hdparm -t claims ca. 55 MB/s for the raw disk, level 0 dumps (actually
tars) from my digital picture collection (ca 1.3 MB/file) to the vtapes are
performed at 10-13 MB/s.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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