From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 13 11: 9:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from reliant.nielsenmedia.com (reliant.nielsenmedia.com [63.114.249.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF90137B40A for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 11:09:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nmrusdunsxg1.nielsenmedia.com (nmrusdunsxg1.nielsenmedia.com [10.9.11.119]) by reliant.nielsenmedia.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g4DI9RR08404 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 14:09:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nmrusdunsxg2.nielsenmedia.com (unverified) by nmrusdunsxg1.nielsenmedia.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.5) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 13 May 2002 14:09:02 -0400 Received: by nmrusdunsxg2.nielsenmedia.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 13 May 2002 14:09:25 -0400 Message-ID: <0BC5187E59E2D411A81000508BB0956901E33CC1@nmrusdunsx6.nielsenmedia.com> From: "Gray, David" To: "'Mike Meyer'" Cc: "'FreeBSD Chat List'" Subject: RE: Backups and such Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:09:20 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yeah, thats pretty much the way I do that. Its a bear though, when the machine in question needs a complete restore from tape... Between tcp wrappers, rsh being turned off (by default) *and* living in /usr, etc, etc, it was an all day (ok, night) affair the last time I lost a drive (5 1/4", 9G Seagate, did NOT like the amt. of ventilation in that cabinet.) -----Original Message----- From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 1:43 PM To: Gray, David Cc: 'FreeBSD Chat List' Subject: Re: Backups and such In <0BC5187E59E2D411A81000508BB0956901E33CBB@nmrusdunsx6.nielsenmedia.com>, Gray, David typed: > A multivolume dump to tape works, and is the current > solution - but its slow over the network - the speed > of the tape and the speed of the net don't match well, > causing the tape to go to stop-start mode. Just out of curiosity, have you tried not using the rmt protocol, but using rsh (or ssh) to copy the data over? Some work done at stanford in the early nineties showed that rmt was *very* slow, and simply doing "rsh dump | dd " was faster. I confirmed that result going to a disk buffer. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message