From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 29 12:05:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA02721 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 12:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cmax.wcsystems.com (ns2.rocksolid.net [209.12.91.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA02709 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 12:05:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustapha.wcsystems.com (mustapha.wcsystems.com [209.12.91.43]) by cmax.wcsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA03923 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 14:05:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mustapha.wcsystems.com with Microsoft Mail id <01BC6C39.4D0A7D40@mustapha.wcsystems.com>; Thu, 29 May 1997 14:05:02 -0500 Message-ID: <01BC6C39.4D0A7D40@mustapha.wcsystems.com> From: Kevin Hendrix To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: increasing backup speed - rdump? Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 14:05:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 I am having similar problems to those described by Christoph Kukulies in his first message, and have found that the increased blocking factor (b option to dump) has had little to no effect on remote dump speeds. My dump command is as follows: dump 0uafb host:/dev/nrst0 64 / I am dumping between 2 low-use BSD boxes, both running 2.2.1-RELEASE code. The machines are connected by a 100baseT full duplex ethernet switch. A dump of my 15Meg root filesystem takes 1 hour!!! (a far cry from the 30-45 seconds it takes for a local dump) Is there a solution to this problem other than some commercial backup package? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, kevin ---------- Kevin Hendrix kevin@rocksolid.net ---------- All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score. ----------