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Old 11-24-2004, 03:29 PM   #1
LuvdemHeels
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tar command and dlt drive


We have RHEL ES 3. We also have a hp dlt vs80 internal drive. We are trying do do backups with the following command:

tar -cvf /dev/st0 /backupdir

The back is either VERY slow or hangs. I believe it may be VERY slow. It is backing up 40GB of data. I have found that per hp the data transfer block size should be 64KB. How do I set this?? Do I set this in the tar command with the -b option?? If so what would the correct syntax look like?
 
  


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