Hello again,

I'm trying to make sure there is no shoe-shinning effect on my tapes. Examining 
amdump report I get:

DUMP SUMMARY:
                                                 DUMPER STATS               
TAPER STATS 
HOSTNAME  DISK                      L  ORIG-KB  OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS   KB/s 
MMM:SS   KB/s
------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ 
-------------
[...]
omni      /var/spool/imap/user/mn   2   119830   68203  56.9   0:39 1751.1   
0:23 3018.5
omni      /var/spool/imap/user/op   0  6135350 4260802  69.4  35:28 2002.2  
35:28 2002.0
[...]

The first line seems ok, since the nominal tape speed is about 3000KB/s, but 
the second one (2002KB/s) concerns me.

However, it is the same rate as the dumper. What does it mean?

I was assuming that the hold disk is used to hold chunks of tar dump data, and 
these chunks are directly fed into the tape. Is this correct?

Cheers,

Rodrigo