Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:50:32 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: kheuer2@gwdg.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DLT tape / no streaming Message-ID: <200504250150.j3P1oWp3033477@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <20050420090231.R37022@gwdu60.gwdg.de> (message from Konrad Heuer on Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:16:05 %2B0200 (CEST)) References: <20050420090231.R37022@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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> I use a Benchmark DLT tape drive to backup data on my DELL PowerEdge 2650 > system [...] > The problem I see is that data flow is not steadily streaming; the tape > drive is operating in start-stop-mode. I use team(1) (/usr/ports/misc/team) to bufferize the acces to a tape drive, in a command like: tar cf - /mydisk | team 1m 16 >/dev/tape_drive It usually does the trick. Olivier
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