Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!sparky!dsndata!jeff From: jeff@dsndata.uucp (Jeff Minnig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: backups to MO Message-ID: Date: 14 Jan 91 14:16:26 GMT Sender: jeff@dsndata.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: Design Data Lines: 56 We have a S6300 model 650/A Magneto-optical drive installed in our 9000/375 sytem running HP-UX 7.0 and I would like to see responses to the following two questions: a) What are the prefered methods for getting hi throughput backups written to the raw 650/A device? Right now I am using ftio with a large block size and am only coming up with between 90KB and 100KB per second out to the MO. This seems to be slow for a device rated to write above 300KB per second. b) I have been experiencing intermitant system problems while doing backups to the MO disk. The system *appears* to corrupt swap space while I am doing a backup to the MO disk and the rest of the system is under fairly high loading. We are using a 660MB SCSI disk as our root filesystem and it is on the same SCSI bus as the MO. Is anyone else experiencing problems with this configuration? The 'April 16 SCSI Driver Patch' has been applied to our kernel. >> what /hp-ux | grep scsi PATCH_7.0:$Header: scsi_if.c,v 1.2.17.9 90/04/16 10:45:39 Exp $ PATCH_7.0:$Header: scsi.c,v 1.2.17.11 90/04/16 15:04:00 Exp $ PATCH_7.0:$Header: scsi_ccs.c,v 1.2.17.5 90/01/23 12:56:17 prem Exp $ Thanks for comments and replies. -jeff- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I said it, not the people I work for. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Minnig | (402) 476-8278 Design Data | 1033 'O' St. Suite 324 | {hpfcla,sparky,unocss}!dsndata!jeff Lincoln NE 68508 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Home is where your keyboard is. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I said it, not the people I work for. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Minnig | (402) 476-8278 Design Data | 1033 'O' St. Suite 324 | {hpfcla,ssbell,unocss}!dsndata!jeff Lincoln NE 68508 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Home is where your keyboard is. ----------------------------------------------------------------------