It depends on how interleaved the tape is.  If you've got 32 parallel
sessions, of which one is the informix backup, then the cloning will be
slow.  If you've got 8 parallel sessions, you're cloning will be
noticibly faster.

I get between 5 and 25 MB/s on my SDLT220 drives.

Paul C.

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 16:27, Julio Porras wrote:

> I am cloning an Informix full archive using our HP A4846A tape library (with
> 2 DLT 7000 tape drives) and it's taking too long to run. It's going at 2500
> to 3000 KB/s (for a 90GB data volume). Is this speed normal? What max speed
> should I expect for my hardware?
>
> Thx,
> Julio Porras
> Especialista de Sistemas
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