On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:09:35AM +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
> I'm using dump to backup a number of filesystems to a tape hosted on a
> remote machine. The machine being backed up is still in commissioning so
> it hasn't got its full complement of data yet. Last night, one 300Gb
> filesystem had about 21Gb used. It took 3.5 hours to dump at an average
> rate of 1530 kB/s (according to dump). By my calculations, if this
> filesystem fill completely, it will take 57 hours to backup.
>> The dump runs like this:
>> Remote machine mounts the tape
> local machine does:
>> export RSH=ssh
Erm - isn't ssh chronically braindead when it comes to using it
for this purpose ?
From
http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2003-March/003345.html
"
> The problem is that using rsh, the transfer rate is around
> 3,000KB/sec,
> using ssh its only around 600KB/sec.
"
Doesn't SSH still have that internal 2k block limit ?
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Chris
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