Performance of Dump

[Steve Simmons]

flur at eecom.gatech.edu (Peter W. Flur) writes:

>I am using an exabyte attached to a Sun for dumps of several different
>types of machines on our network including Suns, NeXT's, Dec's, and HP
>workstations.

>Can anyone offer a reason why these other machines are significantly slower
>than the suns, and more importantly, can someone offer a solution to speed
>them up?

Several reasons.  First, dumps across a network are going to have more
overhead than direct attach.  So the odds are real good that any 
bottleneck anywhere will hurt you big time.

Second, the quality of implementation of dump varies wildly from system
to system.  At one time there was a quite quick one available for anon
ftp, but I've not been able to find it recently.
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  Peter Behrendt, president of Exabyte.  Quoted in Digital Review, Feb 4, 1991.