Re: [Bacula-users] btape w/HP Utltrium-1 drives (part 2)

2006-01-10 Thread Arno Lehmann
On 1/10/2006 6:26 PM, Alan Brown wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Michael 'buk' Scherer wrote: I got my speed back! :) When I moved Bacula onto the new server-box I changed the cable as well, cause the new server was a bit far away from the tapelibrary. Cable length was ~2m. Should be ok, thoug

Re: [Bacula-users] btape w/HP Utltrium-1 drives (part 2)

2006-01-10 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Michael 'buk' Scherer wrote: I got my speed back! :) When I moved Bacula onto the new server-box I changed the cable as well, cause the new server was a bit far away from the tapelibrary. Cable length was ~2m. Should be ok, though. Not if it's single ended and faster than

Re: [Bacula-users] btape w/HP Utltrium-1 drives (part 2)

2006-01-10 Thread Michael 'buk' Scherer
Hey, good news! I got my speed back! :) When I moved Bacula onto the new server-box I changed the cable as well, cause the new server was a bit far away from the tapelibrary. Cable length was ~2m. Should be ok, though. Now I plugged back the old cable and tadada Wrote blk_block=5000, d

Re: [Bacula-users] btape w/HP Utltrium-1 drives (part 2)

2006-01-10 Thread Michael 'buk' Scherer
Hey. Quick test with 1.38.3 still shows: Begin writing Bacula records to tape ... Wrote blk_block=5000, dev_blk_num=4999 VolBytes=322,495,472 rate=3193.0 KB/s Wrote blk_block=1, dev_blk_num= VolBytes=645,055,424 rate=3193.3 KB/s So not much improvement on my side. :o\ Any other ideas? G

Re: [Bacula-users] btape w/HP Utltrium-1 drives (part 2)

2006-01-10 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 1/10/2006 10:58 AM, Michael 'buk' Scherer wrote: Good morning. Just to let you know: I ran into the exact same problems as Chris after upgrading to 1.38.2 and my yearly backup runs for 2 days now at ~3MB/s. Before that I had rates around ~12-14MB/s which was what I would expect. I

Re: [Bacula-users] btape w/HP Utltrium-1 drives (part 2)

2006-01-10 Thread Michael 'buk' Scherer
Good morning. Just to let you know: I ran into the exact same problems as Chris after upgrading to 1.38.2 and my yearly backup runs for 2 days now at ~3MB/s. Before that I had rates around ~12-14MB/s which was what I would expect. I did the bfill tests before as well and got rates around 3MB/s a

Re: [Bacula-users] btape w/HP Utltrium-1 drives (part 2)

2006-01-10 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 00:34, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > On 1/10/2006 12:03 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Monday 09 January 2006 21:49, Chris Hunter wrote: > > ... > > > My results are: > > 23:31:54 Begin writing Bacula records to tape ... > > ... > > Wrote blk_block=29, dev_blk_num=

Re: [Bacula-users] btape w/HP Utltrium-1 drives (part 2)

2006-01-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 1/10/2006 12:03 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 09 January 2006 21:49, Chris Hunter wrote: ... My results are: 23:31:54 Begin writing Bacula records to tape ... ... Wrote blk_block=29, dev_blk_num=2000 VolBytes=18,708,412,456 rate=20973.6 KB/s Wrote blk_block=295000, dev_blk_n

Re: [Bacula-users] btape w/HP Utltrium-1 drives (part 2)

2006-01-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 1/9/2006 9:49 PM, Chris Hunter wrote: Some questions: i) Can you please post your bacula-sd.conf & bacula-dir.conf settings for LTO drives (especially HP Ultrium-1 drives) plus additional st options ? Even though I don't operate any LTO drives here - you should supply the versions of

Re: [Bacula-users] btape w/HP Utltrium-1 drives (part 2)

2006-01-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 09 January 2006 21:49, Chris Hunter wrote: > >> Some questions: > >> i) Can you please post your bacula-sd.conf & bacula-dir.conf settings > >> for LTO drives (especially HP Ultrium-1 drives) plus additional st > >> options ? > > > >Even though I don't operate any LTO drives here - you sh

Re: [Bacula-users] btape w/HP Utltrium-1 drives (part 2)

2006-01-09 Thread Chris Hunter
Some questions: i) Can you please post your bacula-sd.conf & bacula-dir.conf settings for LTO drives (especially HP Ultrium-1 drives) plus additional st options ? Even though I don't operate any LTO drives here - you should supply the versions of Bacula used and OS details. Otherwise, most of w

Re: [Bacula-users] btape w/HP Utltrium-1 drives (part 2)

2006-01-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 1/7/2006 7:14 PM, Chris Hunter wrote: Hi again, Here is the btape output from my second ultrium-1 drive (Drive-2). The drive is part of an autochanger, but I am talking to the drives directly for these btape tests. This drive doesn't hang, like Drive-1. However, it still fails on the

[Bacula-users] btape w/HP Utltrium-1 drives (part 2)

2006-01-07 Thread Chris Hunter
Hi again, Here is the btape output from my second ultrium-1 drive (Drive-2). The drive is part of an autochanger, but I am talking to the drives directly for these btape tests. This drive doesn't hang, like Drive-1. However, it still fails on the "btape fill simple" command after writing ~2GB. Th