Hi,The speed test is not to the tape but to and from the spool drive only. The transfer rates are from real data (audio files).
HTH Am 26.04.21 um 16:17 schrieb Kern Sibbald:
Hello,If you are sending blocks of zeros to a tape drive, it is useless to compare speeds to anything that sends real data. Zero data input to most tape drives is almost completely optimized (compressed) out, so one gets very large, unrealistic speeds. Try sending random data then you will get a better idea of how fast the drive actually can write.Best regards, Kern On 4/25/21 12:36 PM, Udo Kaune wrote:In regard to possible compression 360MB/sec seems slow for a spool drive serving an LTO-7. This is data from an 8 drive RAID 6 DELL box (PERC730P):root@pangaea:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M count=32000 33554432000 bytes (34 GB, 31 GiB) copied, 1.89847 s, 17.7 GB/s root@pangaea:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.zero bs=1M count=32000 conv=fsync 33554432000 bytes (34 GB, 31 GiB) copied, 29.3056 s, 1.1 GB/s root@pangaea:~# dd if=test.zero of=/dev/null bs=1M 33554432000 bytes (34 GB, 31 GiB) copied, 27.9066 s, 1.2 GB/s root@pangaea:~# tapeinfo -f /dev/nst0 Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'IBM ' Product ID: 'ULTRIUM-HH7 ' Revision: 'K4K1' Attached Changer API: No SerialNumber: '10WT141102' MinBlock: 1 MaxBlock: 8388608 SCSI ID: 0 SCSI LUN: 0 Ready: yes BufferedMode: yes Medium Type: 0x78 Density Code: 0x5c BlockSize: 0 DataCompEnabled: yes DataCompCapable: yes DataDeCompEnabled: yes CompType: 0xff DeCompType: 0xff Block Position: 5264131 Partition 0 Remaining Kbytes: -1 Partition 0 Size in Kbytes: -1 ActivePartition: 0 EarlyWarningSize: 0 NumPartitions: 0 MaxPartitions: 3 Device { Name = IBM-LTO7 Media Type = LTO Archive Device = /dev/nst0 Automatic Mount = yes Always Open = yes Removable Media = yes Random Access = no Maximum Spool Size = 256GB Spool Directory = /home/bacula/spool Maximum File Size = 32GB # Maximum Block Size = 524288 Maximum Block Size = 1048576 Backward Space File = yes Fast Forward Space File = yes }19-Apr 16:46 pangaea-dir JobId 1466: Start Backup JobId 1466, Job=srv.2021-04-19_16.00.00_0519-Apr 16:46 pangaea-dir JobId 1466: Using Device "IBM-LTO7" to write. 19-Apr 16:46 pangaea-sd JobId 1466: Spooling data ...19-Apr 17:10 pangaea-sd JobId 1466: User specified Device spool size reached: DevSpoolSize=256,000,176,844 MaxDevSpoolSize=256,000,000,000 19-Apr 17:10 pangaea-sd JobId 1466: Writing spooled data to Volume. Despooling 256,000,176,844 bytes ... 19-Apr 17:26 pangaea-sd JobId 1466: Despooling elapsed time = 00:15:54, Transfer rate = 268.3 M Bytes/second19-Apr 17:26 pangaea-sd JobId 1466: Spooling data again ...19-Apr 17:52 pangaea-sd JobId 1466: User specified Device spool size reached: DevSpoolSize=256,000,176,881 MaxDevSpoolSize=256,000,000,000 19-Apr 17:52 pangaea-sd JobId 1466: Writing spooled data to Volume. Despooling 256,000,176,881 bytes ... 19-Apr 18:08 pangaea-sd JobId 1466: Despooling elapsed time = 00:16:13, Transfer rate = 263.1 M Bytes/second19-Apr 18:08 pangaea-sd JobId 1466: Spooling data again ...19-Apr 18:16 pangaea-sd JobId 1466: Committing spooled data to Volume "G-0620-6". Despooling 56,071,784,596 bytes ... 19-Apr 18:19 pangaea-sd JobId 1466: Despooling elapsed time = 00:03:04, Transfer rate = 304.7 M Bytes/second 19-Apr 18:19 pangaea-sd JobId 1466: Elapsed time=01:32:46, Transfer rate=102.0 M Bytes/second 19-Apr 18:19 pangaea-sd JobId 1466: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 6,326 bytes ...19-Apr 18:19 pangaea-dir JobId 1466: Bacula pangaea-dir 9.6.7 (10Dec20): HTH, Udo Am 21.04.21 um 09:14 schrieb fk+bacula--- via Bacula-users:Hello there, I'm using a Quantum LTO-7 HH drive with Ultrium LTO-7 tapes. The streamer is connected on a SAS HAB microsemi 1100-4i. I set the Maximum block size = 524288 and run: speed file_size=3 skip_rawwith zero data and bacula block structure Total Write rate = *311.7 MB/s*with random data: Total Write rate = *94.74 MB/s*For backup I use the spooling function. Two SATA hdd's are build a RAID-0 (stripe) array.This array is used for holding the spooling data (spool directory) testing: **** write test ****dd if=/dev/zero of=/backup_spool/testfile bs=1M count=204800 conv=fdatasync,notrunc204800+0 Datensätze ein 204800+0 Datensätze aus 214748364800 bytes (215 GB, 200 GiB) copied, 596,839 s, *360 MB/s* **** read test **** dd if=/backup_spool/testfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=204800 204800+0 Datensätze ein 204800+0 Datensätze aus 214748364800 bytes (215 GB, 200 GiB) copied, 625,029 s, *344 MB/s*Have made test backup (1,1 TByte) and have monitored a constant write rate of 200 MByte/s during despooling.Are the write values of the tape drive OK for a LTO-7 environment? Thanks for any hints, Frank_______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
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