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From: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: How to get best Ultrix TK70 back-up performance over Ethernet?
Message-ID: <11523@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 19 Sep 89 06:46:15 GMT
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Consider a vs3100 and a vs3200 on an Ethernet, both running Ultrix 3.0,
soon to be Ultrix 3.1 (UWS 2.1).  The vs3200 has the TK70 tape drive.  I
tried the following to back up 119 Mb from an rz55 on the vs3100 to the
TK70 on the vs3200:

    vs3100# rdump 0f vs3200:/dev/rmt0h /dev/rrz1c

      - estimated 8 HOURS to write 119 Mb to the TK70

    vs3100# dump 0f - /dev/rrz1c | rsh vs3200 exec dd bs=20k of=/dev/rmt0h

      - estimated 22 MINUTES to write 119 Mb to the TK70

Surely there must be a way to get rdump to do better than 8 HOURS for
100 Mb?  Enlighten me.  I would have thought rdump and rmt would be
able to pick the fastest way without my help; I must be very wrong.
-- 
-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
 129.97.128.64    Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada