RE: Need more speed - CPIO

2003-05-27 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
| On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 10:07, Distribution Lists wrote: |with some help I have CPIO backing up a system to a remote | tape drive |across a 100MB switch. Using the following command | | You can generally pick up some speed in these circumstances by | not competing with yourself

Re: Need more speed - CPIO

2003-05-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12:11 27 May 2003, Kenneth Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] | Another thing worth trying, which is rather dependent upon your | I/O patterns, is to put a buffer between the cpio and the rsh. | Suppose the cpio is writing nice big data chunks to the pipe | - thus it fills | the pipe