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Re: Speed up xfsdump ?

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Subject: Re: Speed up xfsdump ?
From: Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas.Kowalski@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:07:06 +0200
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Tim Shimmin wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:42:23AM -0700, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > Bill Kendall <wkendall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Try the dump this way and see if performance improves:
> > > xfsdump -J -f /dev/nst0 -b 1048576 -d 8192 /raid
> > 
> > Agreed.  Play with the blocking/buffering options of xfsdump
> > itself.
> 
> My 2 cents FWIW.

[...]

Using your tips, I also tested with this:

xfsdump -J -f /dev/nst0 -S -p 300 -b 262144 /raid

At the end, I have:

xfsdump: dump size (non-dir files) : 28364432208 bytes
xfsdump: dump complete: 4643 seconds elapsed

This gives : 6109074 bytes/sec

So the results are almost identical whatever blocksize or number of 
dump files are specified to xfsdump... 

-- 
Nicolas


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