You guys/gals are great, very responsive! I did try
spooling/despooling and my run times shot up. I was using a simple
7200 drive though, no ssd or raid...I assume the performance gain
happens when your networks multi machines...wearing multiple hats so
will report back on btape next week, unless I get some time. gary

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Alan Brown <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk> wrote:
> gary artim wrote:
>>
>> thank much! will try testing with btape.
>
> Please let us know the results
>
>> btw, I ran with 20GB maximum
>> file size/2MB max block (see bacula-sd.conf below) and got these
>> results, 20MB/s increase, ran 20 minutes faster, got 50MBs --
>
> You should be seeing 120Mb/s or thereabouts.
>
> If you're spooling/despooling then you'll see lower overall speeds of
> course. What counts is the despooling speed.
>
> How much ram have you got and what are you using to connect the LTO4 drives
> up?
>
>
>
>
>

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