PowerEdge, CentOS and LTO2: Tape is extremely slow 2 to 4 MB/s

Fri May 4 00:16:50 CDT 2007

Hi

We have just taken live a site with 2 PowerEdge 2900 and we experience
extremly slow backup speeds to LTO2 Tape. We need to save about 160 GB
of Data but at a speed rate of 2 - 4 MB/s it takes ages.

Does anyone use a LTO2 and what are their experiences? We installed
CentOS5 and are using cpio.

Regards,

Patrick Weichmann
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