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Hello,

I just installed flexbackup 1.2.1-1

The reason I tried it was it has experimental support for multiple tapes. anyway
after configuring it I am not running a test but it seems super slow.
I am trying to backup mp3 files and I added them to the exclude list so they are
not compressed.
My cpu usage is super low to it's not wating for a slow cpu.
My tape led is flashing irregular like it is not doing much.
It's a dds 2 tape drive which should handle about 60 Mbyte per minute.
When I use tar it does reach arround those speeds.
With flexbackup it seems it is taking about 10 minutes or more to backup 60 mb.
This seems way to slow to me.
Now I use afio and mbuffer and the option -volumes 3

Does anyone have any advice why flexbackup goes so slow?

Thanks very much.

Regards

Hans de Groot


This is the contents of the /var/log/flexbackup/test.xxxx
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| Doing level 0 backup of set test using afio
| ERROR: Tape doesn't have an index! (use -newtape?)
| Making sure tape is at end of data...
| Backup set "test" (/data5/music2)
| Tape #0
|------------------------------------------------------------
At block 0.
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup of: /data5/music2
| Date of this level 0 backup: Sat Mar 13 16:15:53 2004
| Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
|------------------------------------------------------------
| printf "mp3 MP3 Z z gz gif zip ZIP lha jpeg jpg JPG taz tgz deb rpm bz2 \
|   lzo avi AVI mpg MPG mpeg MPEG arj rar RAR" > /tmp/nocompress.3611
| printf "Volume Label:\nlevel 0 /data5/music2 Sat Mar 13 16:15:53 2004 \
|   afio+gzip from koffie.dandy.nl\n\n" > /tmp/label.3611
| cd "/data5/music2" && (printf "//--/tmp/label.3611 \
|   flexbackup.volume_header_info\n" && find . -depth -xdev ! -type s \
|   -print ) | afio -o -E /tmp/nocompress.3611 -z -1 m -P gzip -Q -9 -Z -M \
|   6m -T 1k -v -b 10k - | mbuffer -q -m 10M -p 75 -s 10240 -f -o \
|   "/dev/nst0"
| rm -f /tmp/nocompress.3611 /tmp/label.3611
|------------------------------------------------------------
CONTROL_FILE/flexbackup.volume_header_info -- okay
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