Are the savesets from the same client..perhaps the saveset being cloned
backed up slow...ie. it is spread out/multiplexed with many other savesets
over lots of tape.  Does every saveset cloned run at 1 MB/sec?

Robert Maiello
Pioneer Data Systems



On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:20:43 -0400, Thomas, Adam (NIH/NIMH) 
<adamt AT NIH DOT GOV> wrote:

>I'm running Networker 7.2 on a Linux workstation (RHEL 3, kernel 2.4.29)
>with a Qualstar 5433 tape library containing two S-AIT drives.
>
>When I try to clone a saveset on a tape with multiple multiplexed files 
the
>job proceeds at less 1 MB/sec. At this rate it would take about a week to
>clone one tape.
>
>If I try to clone one of my archive tapes, where the savesets are not
>multiplexed on the tape, the job proceeds at closer to 40MB/sec.
>
>Note that for backups parallelism on the tape devices is set to four, so 
the
>degree of multiplexing is fairly low.
>
>Any ideas on how to speed things up?
>
>-a
>
>
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