On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, John Drescher wrote: >> > Have you tried a test of the raw tape speed? When I first got mt lto-2 >> > library I did a few tests like the following >> > >> > time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst0 bs=1G count=10 >> > >> > and I got around 35MB/s. >> >> Try if=/dev/zero and if=/dev/random
>> I did not do /dev/zero because of hardware compression. I guess I could > turn that off but isn't /dev/random 1 byte at a time?? It's fast enough on most systems. Alternatively, use btape and the fill command. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
