_slow_ rdump

[George Robbins]

In article <8844 at pitt.UUCP> field at elvis.cs.pitt.edu (Gus) writes:
> 
> Last night I tried dumping a 300 MB file system to tape (via rdump) from
> a Decstation 3100 (Ultrix 3.1) to a  1/4" SCSI tape drive hanging off
> a Sun3 (4.0.3).  rdump reported this would take 24 hours!  Is anyone
> else using a similiar setup and getting resonable backup times?  How
> can I get the 3100 to stream to the remote tape?

When I tried this, the dump wasn't as slow as the prediction...

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