On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:19:52AM -0500, Kurt Yoder wrote:
> Yes, using software compression. But should that even matter? The
> dump files are already compressed, it is only a matter of writing
> them out to tape. I have hardware compression turned off on the tape
> drive.
> 

Check whether some DLE's (maybe all) are not using the holding disk.
In that case the rate of taping might vary with network and compression speed.

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