re: xfsdump/xfsrestore questions.

[Greg Freemyer <freemyer@NorcrossGroup.com>]

I can't talk to xfs tuning but ...

Making a generic comparison between windows and xfsdump is unfair, unless you have exactly the same hardware involved.

In general you need to have a feed speed about 3x the tapes max. write speed to keep the tape streaming.

IIRC a small dat drive can do about 3.6 GB/hr of compressed data.

If your data is 2:1 compressible, that is 7.2 GB/hr uncompressed.  That sounds like what you are getting on the windows box.

To get this, you probably have a disk-drive speed of about 21.6 GB/hr or more on the windows box.

What sort of disk-drive speed do you have on the xfs box?  I'm sure you know that RAID can drastically improve your disk-speed.

BTW: With really high-end drives like SDLT (39 GB/hr compressed), you basically have to design your whole storage system around their required feed rate if you want them to be able to stream.

Greg Freemyer
Internet Engineer
Deployment and Integration Specialist
Compaq ASE - Tru64
Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect
The Norcross Group
www.NorcrossGroup.com


 >>  I dumped about 9gb of data to a DDS3 DAT. It took about 4 hours with
 >>  xfsdump.

 >>  On a windows box, with the same TBU, I can dump the same amount in about
 >>  1.5 hrs. Can anyone suggest what I can do to speed things up a bit?

 >>  HP DDS3 SCSI DAT model: C1537A 

 >>  TIA.

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 >>  Austin Gonyou
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 >>  Coremetrics, Inc.
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