Tape backup performance on 386 ISA/EISA systems

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1123 at sixhub.UUCP> davidsen at sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  As I noted before, that was a typo, the low (fragmented) rate was
>300KB/min (not /sec), when the disk is not fragmented and the tape
>streams the rate is 4MB/min (there I typed it right twice).

The only reason I could see for this kind of difference is that you are
using backup software that does not have a large tape buffer (i.e. tar).

Using a tape backup archiver with large buffers (like cpio -C 102400)
will negate most of the effect of a fragmented disk on tape streaming.


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