[flexbackup-help] SCSI Performance Issue

[Steven L. <ste...@ho...>]

Hi all,

I use flexbackup with an Adaptec 2940UW and a HP Surestore DAT24 drive.  I 
have only recently started using flexbackup having found it the best tool I 
could find, but the first backup I tried, took a ridiculously long time (it 
was transferring at 50k per second, which for a SCSI DAT is not right).

I installed BUFFER to no avail.  Am I missing something here?  Is there a 
confiuration option I need to set?   I set it to use DUMP because I dont 
know anything about AFIO, but would it be better with AFIO?

Here is the .conf part for buffer:
$buffer = 'buffer';         # one of false/buffer/mbuffer
$buffer_megs = '20';        # buffer memory size (in megabytes)
$buffer_fill_pct = '75';    # start writing when buffer this percent full
$buffer_pause_usec = '100'; # pause after write (tape devices only)

Compression:
$compress = 'bzip2'; # one of false/gzip/bzip2/lzop/zip/compress/hardware
$compr_level = '4'; # compression level (1-9) (for gzip/bzip2/lzop/zip)

SCSI Part:
$device = '/dev/st0';
$blksize = '10';


Atimes and DUMP dates are off, maybe I am just being stupid here, if so 
someone please slap me... =)

If you need more info please let me know.

Regards
Steve

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