On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I guess I was a little disappointed with respect to its claims and its > actual performance. I would like to speed up my backup, as it is now a > backup of my system containing about 5.5Gigs takes almost 5.5hrs. That > is only about 275k/s transfer rate which is way below the capabilities > of the drive. Which leads me to believe there can be improvements on the > software side of my backup.
Listen to the tape while it is running, it should basically emit a nice constant sound. If it doesn't and you hear it 'back up' then that is why things are so slow for you. It may well be that you bought a tape drive that requires a higher data rate than your PCee can sustain, this is what buffer is supposed to help with. Make a -really- big buffer (like 10-50 meg) and set the low/high marks at the far end so that it generates a big wack meg of data and then starts feeding the tape.. Now if your disks and your CPU (compression) can mostly keep up with the tape then you will be fine with this, but if the tape vastly outmatches your systems performance (ie it can stream 2meg/sec or something crazy like that) then you will see little or no speed gain and possibly even a loss. Jason
