[Dump-users] performane questions

[Jeffrey R. <je...@bu...>]

moving a partition from one disk to another, the partition is just shy of
300 GB (291GB) I used the syntax of "dump -0f - /dev/sdb2 | restore -rf -"

The system is copying from one SATA drive to another SATA drive (3.0GB/s
transfer rate is enabled).  The OS is Fedora 7.

after a half hour dump is giving me estimate times of 20+ hours with a
transfer rate 3930kB/s

Is this about right? or should I run the dump/restore commands with
additional options for better throughput?

Thanks!

Jeff