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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Efficient tape I/O with 386/ix; How??
Keywords: streaming tape interactive slow
Message-ID: <11555@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 11 Dec 88 01:17:57 GMT
References: <317@focsys.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: Institute of Applied Cosmology, Austin TX
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In <317@focsys.UUCP>, larry@focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson) wrote:
> Streaming tape I/O with 386/ix seems to be rather slow.  The drive
> is not streaming very well.  It spends most of it's time stopping
> and starting.

Try using GNU tar.  I use a rather old version, but the current
version should be at least as good.

I do backups with a blocking factor of 6000, or three megabytes per
write to the tape.  tar has portability advantages over cpio anyway.
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