From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 31 6:19:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6201537B405 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 06:19:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lilith (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA13486; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:18:52 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <011201c1321f$7bfc6cc0$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> From: "Siegbert Baude" To: "Mario Doria" Cc: References: <15247.4312.553929.805685@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Remote dumps Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:18:54 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, > On the other hand, doing tape operations over the network is sorta > slow. I haven't been able to test, but you might get faster backups > doing something like: > > dump dumptions -f - | ssh remotemachine dd of=remotetapedevicename bs=blocksize > > If you do some tests of this, please let us know the results. If speed over ssh-based network connections is a concern, make sure you use ssh -c blowfish Significant better speed performance according to my experience. Ciao Siegbert P.S.: Sorry for the dupe Mike, I first sent it to you only, as I hit "Reply" instead of "Reply-All" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message