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Re: [Networker] maximum speed to tape using bigasm and /dev/zero

2006-05-02 09:13:43
Subject: Re: [Networker] maximum speed to tape using bigasm and /dev/zero
From: "Jespers, Bart" <Bart.Jespers AT FUJITSU-SIEMENS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 15:04:30 +0200
Hello All,

thanks for the answers concerning bigasm. I agree that 45-55MB/s is good on LTO2

however if you use dd comming from /dev/zero (creates only zero's), the 
compression should be the highest possible since zeroes are very good 
compressable.

however we also see a max speed of 45-55MB/s using /dev/zero.

does anybody has tested this?

bart 

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My personal best is 189MB/sec on LTO3 backing up a mix of file & print data and 
some big SQL dbases at once.

Im going to give bigasm a run to see how well it runs..

Cheers,
Matt




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Typically running bigasm against IBM LTO-2 tape drives on Solaris hosts I have 
seen a peak speed of around 42MB/s. On the whole, bigasm does generally 
represent a nice level of compression without going overboard.

On the second general question of "what speed have you obtained", the best yet 
remains an LTO-1 tape drive which ran at around 98MB/s backing up heaps of 
holey SQL databases...

Cheers,

Preston.

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