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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:18:54 +0200
From:      "Siegbert Baude" <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de>
To:        "Mario Doria" <mariodoria@yahoo.com>
Cc:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Remote dumps
Message-ID:  <011201c1321f$7bfc6cc0$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de>
References:  <15247.4312.553929.805685@guru.mired.org>

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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"


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