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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: increasing backup speed - rdump?
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On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Christoph Kukulies wrote:

> 
> Presently I'm getting 48 KB/s when rdumping a FS over the net to
> a HP-DAT streamer attached to an AH1542CF. I'm using the command line
> 
> rdump 0fs host:/dev/nrst0 100000 /usr
> 
> Is there a way to tell the remote side to user larger blocking?

See the B and b options on the dump manpage. 

You will want to change your f option to the more accurate B and b syntax.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major