A DLT unit on /dev/sa0 is really slow

2003-08-26 Thread David Landgren
List, I have an external DLT tape (a COMPAQ DLT VS 40/80 5133 according to camcontrol). It seems glacially slow to me. Last night I backed up many gigabytes of files from a remote machine over NFS. It took over five hours to do it. My overworked Sun E-450 will do this in a shade over three

Re: A DLT unit on /dev/sa0 is really slow

2003-08-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 26), David Landgren said: I have an external DLT tape (a COMPAQ DLT VS 40/80 5133 according to camcontrol). It seems glacially slow to me. Last night I backed up many gigabytes of files from a remote machine over NFS. It took over five hours to do it. My overworked Sun