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Date:      Tue, 7 May 1996 23:02:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Cc:        nate@sri.MT.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: *SLOW* remote dumps
Message-ID:  <199605080602.XAA02949@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199605072330.RAA22700@rocky.sri.MT.net> from Nate Williams at "May 7, 96 05:30:41 pm"

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> > I decided to backup my laptop since I got a new disk for doing -current
> > development last week, and backups speeds are running 30-40K/sec,
> > whereas the exact same box running -stable (different drive, but
> > iozone's are comperable) gives me 450-500K/sec.  Any ideas?
> 
> Note, I tried using rsh and it went *really* fast, although it wasn't a
> usable dump.
> 
> dump 0usf 138600 - /usr | rsh remotehost dd of=/dev/rmt/0ub

Try that as:
dump 0busf 10 138600 - /usr | rsh dd bs=10240 of=/dev/rmt/0ub

> 
> With the above command I got my 450K/sec again, but unfortunately the
> dump is unusable.

Probably due to the fact that rsh broke up the blocks which dd then wrote
to the tape using variable length records.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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