Hi All I was performing backups across the network using Arkeia until one day the wrong tape was inserted and the whole tape cycle went haywire (as it requires you enter the right tape with the right label or you get a nice email in the morning asking you to insert the right tape - when infact, I DID enter the right tape) and so I got pretty p@#@ed off at Arkeia and decided to switch to using tar (as I can insert any tape and it will write, plus tar is pretty universal accross *nix systems so I can restore on any system)
Aaaanyway, the point of my story is... it would normally take ~2.5hours to backup 33GB across the network using Arkeia to tape. With tar, it takes over 8 hours at which point it gives me a nice "no space left on device" message on the screen. I'm not using gzip compression. I've tried this and it doesn't help the speed problem (or capacity problem) The backup unit is an Ecrix VXA-1 using V17 tapes. Any ideas?? Thanks in advance! Regards, Gonzalo. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
