Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-24 Thread Harri Haataja
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:55:32PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:05, hochenaw wrote: we have an HP Surestore dlt vs80e and use hp dlt IV tapes (capacity 40/80GB) under linux. ... How can i activate software or hardware compression (cant find an entry in

Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-24 Thread Scott Mcdermott
Harri Haataja on Fri 24/01 12:31 +0200: Hardware depends on the os in use. Some os's have a choice of compressed or uncompressed drives in the device list and will turn the drives compression on and off according to the devicename you used to address it. Linux does not however, so one

Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 January 2003 05:31, Harri Haataja wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:55:32PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:05, hochenaw wrote: we have an HP Surestore dlt vs80e and use hp dlt IV tapes (capacity 40/80GB) under linux. ... How can i activate software

Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-22 Thread hochenaw
Hi, we have an HP Surestore dlt vs80e and use hp dlt IV tapes (capacity 40/80GB) under linux. But the backup is to slow, we should have a backup rate of 10.8 GB (native)/20.6 (comprimized), but we do not have :-( So i have some questions, to which i did not find answers until now! In the file

Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 at 3:05pm, hochenaw wrote But the backup is to slow, we should have a backup rate of 10.8 GB (native)/20.6 (comprimized), but we do not have :-( GB is not a rate, it's a size. I assume you mean GB/hour? In the file tapelist we have following entry (i dont know why):

Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:05, hochenaw wrote: Hi, we have an HP Surestore dlt vs80e and use hp dlt IV tapes (capacity 40/80GB) under linux. But the backup is to slow, we should have a backup rate of 10.8 GB (native)/20.6 (comprimized), but we do not have :-( So i have some questions, to