Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-4 Drive issues

2010-05-22 06:35:10
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-4 Drive issues
From: "James Harper" <james.harper AT bendigoit.com DOT au>
To: <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 20:32:35 +1000
> Hi all,
> 
> Hoping someone could help me out.  My department recently purchased a
Dell
> PowerVault TL2000 autochanger connected via SAS5.
> 
> We are upgrading from a spectralogic AIT4 system.
> 
> The sad part is the LTO-4 drive is running much slower than the AIT
system.
> I'm avg around 714k/s. I have been reading where others complain about
only 35
> - 50 M/s instead of 120+. At this point I'd love to 35 - 50 M/s.
> 
> I'm running Fedora 12 & Bacula 5.0.2
> This is all on a new server. The AIT system is running on Fedora 10 &
Bacula
> 5.0.0
> 
> All the config files are similar if not identical accept for hardware
> settings. I just don't seem to understand why this is so slow. Any
suggestions
> would be appreciated.
> 

If it was a HP drive you would use HP Library & Tape Tools to run a
bunch of tests on it and tell you if everything is good. Dell probably
have a similar tool. That would at least tell you that the hardware was
okay or not.

James

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