> >>>>> "RW" == Roger Williams <R.Williams AT gns.cri DOT nz> writes:
> 
> RW> I have been very disappointed to discover that the performance of
> RW> Linux dump seems to be completely awful in recent RedHat Enterprise
> RW> and CentOS releases.
> RW> Have other Amanda admins seen this?

Then Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs AT math.uh DOT edu> wrote:

> Yes, I've seen the same.  I've no idea what's gone wrong, but switching
> to tar seems to be the best solution.  Unfortunately the idea of writing
> to the filesystem in order to back it up seems... dumb to me, and dump
> has never failed in fifteen years of use regardless of that the
> naysayers seem to make up about it.

And I say:

I'm using gnutar and my performance has gone to hell since the 5.4
version of RHEL came out.  What do we do now?                           

Steve
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