On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:57:48AM -0500, Josh Welch wrote:
> Backups aren't happening as quickly as I had hoped, and I am looking
> at ways to improve matters. According to the amanda man page, the speed
> parameter is not even used by amanda currently,

I have no clue about the tapetype's speed thing, but there are
plenty of reasons for Amanda to be slow.  It'd help if you posted
the email report from a typical run.

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