On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 13:51 -0800, Tom Haws wrote: > Thom Paine wrote: > > >I use Arkeia with my Dell Powervault 120T DAT. It has the library > >function, and an 8 tape magazine. I find it slow as well, but I guess > >100G in 12 hours is quick enough for me. > > > >http://www.arkeia.com > > > >-=/>Thom > > > > > > > Thanks for your reply Thom. Actually, if you're getting 100GB in 12 > hours on DAT technology, that's not bad. > > However, I have 500GB to back up, and I have overflowed my DLT > autoloader capactiy, so I bought the LTO-2 one. That one *should* get > up to 187GB/hr according to the specs (assuming 2:1 compression), with a > top end of 1.4TB native (no compression). I thought I was good to go. > > Instead, I got 30MB in 5 minutes!! Definitely something wrong there, so > I am searching like crazy for a solution. Had to put it all back > together so I could at least get an incremental backup on my DLT drive > last night. I've been looking through lists all day today, because it > is a production server, and I can only work on it during a limited > window at night.... > > *sigh* > > Anybody else out there have any ideas? Do you know if I do a "mknod -m > 666 /dev/st0 c 9 0" with the tape drive hooked up, does it do anything > different than if there wasn't one installed? Like read the status bits > on the drive to tell what it's capabilities are? ---- [12/13/2004-22:15:05 ,1,58,0,0,-1,11,18,0,0] Start Custom Rotation Backup operation (pid 32140) [prev Job ID 57] [12/13/2004-23:23:26 ,1,58,0,0,206,11,18,0,0] - Total Files backed up : 3179 [12/13/2004-23:23:26 ,1,58,0,0,247,11,18,0,0] - Total Files missed : 0 [12/13/2004-23:23:26 ,1,58,0,0,207,11,18,0,0] - Total MB processed : 10531 LTO 100/200GB (don't know if it's a LTO 1 or 2) (13868) Vendor ID = DELL (13868) Product ID = PV-110T-LTO1 (13868) Revision = 1514 10 gigabytes in and an hour and 8 minutes these source files are via NFS (last night's backup) I think it was about 17 sessions - 12 local (small amounts of date) - 5 via NFS Craig
