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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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