On Tuesday 02 March 2010 16:53:15 Sean Carolan wrote:
> Would this go faster if I unmounted the partition and tried to do a
> block-level copy of the entire thing?  How would you handle this?

Probably.  Without knowing the specifics of your tape archive process, it is 
likely having an issue dealing with the hard links.  Almost all questions of 
the nature "how do I backup my pool/backup partition" are answered with "take 
a snapshot of the partition and back that up".

Regards,
Tyler

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