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> > <quote who="Gardiner Leverett"> > > I've got a question for you (since I'm about to implement > > the exact same thing): does the dump have to be tar'd? > > I'm copying this to list for others, hope you don't mind? > > We are using tar, but not gzip'd. We are using the hardare > compression. I had hardware compression turned off. > Make sure you use split_diskbuffer, or you'll get a lot of: > > taper: no split_diskbuffer specified: using fallback split > size of 10240kb to > buffer localhost:/root.0 in-memory > > > I am trying to dump about 80G of data from across the > > country (with T1's at both ends), and the throughput is > > coming at 161kb/s, which is trying to say it'd be 4 days > > to dump all this data (when it used to work in one weekend > > over 40 hours). > > Whoa ;-) Yeah, that's what I said! Something is very wrong here. > > > I want to implement the same thing with > > splitting across lto2 tapes (but I don't have a holding disk, > > and I'm about to add a usb one). I think the tar is what's > > killing this, so I just want to do a full dump, into 2gb chunks > > and save those to tape. > > Plain tar or with compression? > Plain tar.