Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 22:18:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump/restore problem (was: Network problem with 2.2.6-RELEASE) Message-ID: <199805082018.WAA14584@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199805081736.MAA13752@plains.NoDak.edu> from Mark Tinguely at "May 8, 98 12:36:44 pm"
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As Mark Tinguely wrote... > > DLTs need blocksizes >= 64 Kb to be kept happy streaming. I used a DLT2000 > > for years on my FreeBSD box, I now have a DLT4000. I can't keep 'm streaming > > from a 4G Barracuda with the current 64kB physio() limit. Keep the tape and > > the disks on seperate SCSI channels (I have 2x NCR810). > > do you have any experience using the DLT drive backup filesystem over a > moderately busy local area network? Not really. We do backups to Legato/Digital Unix on a DLT 5 loader but I've never witnessed it. It runs at 4 am ;-) But it never let us down either. Keeping a DLT streaming over a single 10mbit ethernet is quite impossible. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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