From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 8 15:26:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27799 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 15:26:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA27684 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 15:26:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA31583 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Sat, 9 May 1998 00:26:10 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.7/8.6.12) id WAA14584; Fri, 8 May 1998 22:18:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199805082018.WAA14584@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: dump/restore problem (was: Network problem with 2.2.6-RELEASE) In-Reply-To: <199805081736.MAA13752@plains.NoDak.edu> from Mark Tinguely at "May 8, 98 12:36:44 pm" To: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 22:18:37 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Mark Tinguely wrote... > > DLTs need blocksizes >= 64 Kb to be kept happy streaming. I used a DLT2000 > > for years on my FreeBSD box, I now have a DLT4000. I can't keep 'm streaming > > from a 4G Barracuda with the current 64kB physio() limit. Keep the tape and > > the disks on seperate SCSI channels (I have 2x NCR810). > > do you have any experience using the DLT drive backup filesystem over a > moderately busy local area network? Not really. We do backups to Legato/Digital Unix on a DLT 5 loader but I've never witnessed it. It runs at 4 am ;-) But it never let us down either. Keeping a DLT streaming over a single 10mbit ethernet is quite impossible. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message