Efficient tape I/O with 386/ix; How??

[James Van Artsdalen]

In <317 at focsys.UUCP>, larry at focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson) wrote:
> Streaming tape I/O with 386/ix seems to be rather slow.  The drive
> is not streaming very well.  It spends most of it's time stopping
> and starting.

Try using GNU tar.  I use a rather old version, but the current
version should be at least as good.

I do backups with a blocking factor of 6000, or three megabytes per
write to the tape.  tar has portability advantages over cpio anyway.
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