On Tuesday 23 January 2007 21:56, Ross Vandegrift wrote: >On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:01:38AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Well, since dump works at the partition level, it may be that dump and >> LVM aren't compatible. Switch to tar, which is file oriented & see >> what happens. > >Looks like I'm hitting nearly the same speed situation. I backed up >7932MiB in 2460 seconds (I got impatient...) which comes out to about >3-4MiB/s. > >Since tar behaves the same way, I think I'm going to play around with >various record sizes when reading from LVM. Something in the blokc >layer is shooting my transfer rates.
I don't think I'm having any troubles with tar in that regard, my 7-9GB backups are all done in sub 1 hour times. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
