SCSI disk to disk dump restore

[Marc Wiz]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:12:10AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> * Dan Rue <drue at therub.org> [20040824 00:01]: wrote:
> > Hey Gang, 
> > 
> > I had an older scsi disk going bad, so I picked up a new disk to replace
> > it.  I did a dump | restore to move the data to the new disk, but it
> > went far slower than expected.  I'm wondering if there's an issue with
> > the different disk speeds.  

Try experimenting the b option (number of buffers).  You will
find it does make a difference.

Marc
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