Kai Zimmer wrote:
>> The total data was 716188 Mbyte and took almost 110:57 - 8:56 = 102:01.
>> That is 1996 kB/sec.
>> You didn't specify what tapedrive and host server you used, but this
>> seems a little low to me.
[...]
> i had a look at the tape specs now (which i should have done earlier) - it 
> says it can transfer data at 16 MB/s - not only 2 MB/s. I will definitly have 
> to run amtapetype now :-}. Let's see, how it's going afterwards.

I think the 2MB/s you observe are due to the slow dumping speed across
the network.  Whatever your tapedrive does, you won't finish earlier
than your clients send the data. :-)  How nice to be limited by network
and disk speed rather than tape!

Alex

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