RE: Backup with Ontape very slow
Or better still pipe to another server and do the gzip there - you can
easily get 100GB per hour
Cheers
Paul
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From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Jack
Parker
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 8:17 AM
To: ids@iiug.org
Subject: Re: Backup with Ontape very slow [28995]
Pipe it through a compression package.
ontape -s -L 0 -t STDIO | gzip - > <your_device>
j.
On Dec 3, 2012, at 8:20 AM, GUSTAVO ECHENIQUE wrote:
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> I have installed Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 TD6 on a Windows 2000 =
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> last Friday was the backup of it using the BrigthStor ArcServe Backup, =
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> that day I won the same license. I tried to do the backup using ontape =
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> takes a long, long time. I set the variables in 256 kB tapeblk which =
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> maximum allowed me (do not know if Informix or operating system).=20
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> Is there any setting that provides better performance?. The base =
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> GB tape drive is an Ultrium LTO2.=20
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> Of course, thank you for your kind attention.=20
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> Gustavo Echenique=20
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