On Wednesday, 7 April 2004 at 16:24:17 -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I am dumping about 284MB... > > Now here is what I did... > > 1. identical drives on the same Adaptec 29160 controller > 2. Each drive is sliced and formatted the same > 3. I ran 'tunefs -n enable' > 4. Mounted drive 2 as /mntg > > > Then as root do this: > # dump -C 32 -0Lf - /home | ( cd /mntg ; restore xf - ) > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Apr 7 16:17:13 2004 > .. > DUMP: finished in 45 seconds, throughput 6288 KBytes/sec > > ..that seems a bit slow for SCSI....
You're creating a whole lot of files in the process. Without the restore it would probably be faster. > # ufsdump -0f - /export/home | ( cd /mnt6 ; ufsrestore xf - ) > ... > DUMP: 571006 blocks (278.81MB) on 1 volume at 22362 KB/sec > > That speed seems more reasonable. > > Is there any reason that the FreeBSD machine is so much slower? Different hardware, I would imagine. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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