Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:33:57 -0700 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: jaymax <jaymax36@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Approx. restore time estimate Message-ID: <a9f4a3860909141733t47bd95f6s67235de1166c34bd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <25445497.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <25443580.post@talk.nabble.com> <20090914163643.X97663@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <25445497.post@talk.nabble.com>
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On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 16:36, jaymax <jaymax36@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks! > > That might explain. Is there an alternate process you would recommend with > at least equal reliability. > BTW I should have mentioned that I was restoring from a disk file rather > than from a tape > > Thanks again. IME, restoring from disk or tape makes little difference, if you're doing a full restore, and once the restore process is up and running. The bigger bottleneck is the write speed of the disk(s) you're restoring to - it's always slower to write than to read, often by a very large margin. Kurt
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