Topic: Flexbackup - elapsed time

[Liam Dasey]

Are there any timongs for backups. We have 2 standard REDHAT 7.2 machines used puely as SAMBA servers that backup to tape (sony AIT SCSI) using dump and take approx 1:15 (hrs:mins) to back up 20GB. We have 4 e-smith servers, again using SONY AIT tapes, one of which has a little over 20GB and takes 5:30 to backup using flaxbackup.

Is this due to the fact that flexbackup zips data???

The machines are all PIII 1.3GHz with 2 mirrored 40GB SCSI disks and 1GB memory.

[Steve Bush]

/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/flexbackup.conf/10Buffering

I changed $blksize = '10';
to $blksize = '32';

$blksize = '64'; would be ideal except I received a kernel error that was something to the effect of 64k block sizes not being compiled into the kernel.

Anyway, this cut my backup time with a DLT1 tape drive dramatically.