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

[Billinghurst, David (RTATECH)]

> From: Weichmann, Patrick
>
> Hi
>  
> Does anyone use a LTO2 and what are their experiences? We installed
> CentOS5 and are using cpio.
> 
> 

PE2850 on RHEL3 onto two external LTO2 drives on separate SCSI busses.

A full backup of ~600 GB takes 5 hours onto two drives.  Assuming the
load is split evenly - it isn't - this is approx 17 MB/s per drive


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