[rescue] Slow DDS backups

Gregory Leblanc gleblanc at linuxweasel.com
Sat Oct 19 12:20:06 CDT 2002


On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 11:55:52AM -0400, David Rouse wrote:
> I've got a DDS2 drive (from an old Mac server) internally in a ss1000 to do
> backups with ufsdump. All the drives in the ss1000 are internal -- the built-in
> four drives and a disk tray with four drives.
> 
> Does 600 KB/sec reported by ufsdump sound right for this setup?

Uh, it's a DDS drive, you say?  Sounds pretty fast to me.  I did one
backup to a DDS2 tape drive I got, and about 8 hours later it was
finished writing to the tape.  I tossed both of them in a corner,
they're not worth using.  
	Greg



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