[ale] 20/40 GB Tape backup

[Adrin]

Way Late,

I hope this is a DLT drive and not a DAT.   DLT drivers are very fast in SCO. Backing up 4
to 5 Gigs in under 20 minutes including the verification.  The Company I work for uses
Lone Tar.  Some setting you can check are the SCSI BIOS speed, Block Size, and let the
hardware do the compression.  I am not an expert on this, but I do prefer doing a recover
on a Unix box over that other OS.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> Christopher Fowler
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 6:54 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] 20/40 GB Tape backup
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> I installed a SCSI-3 Compaq external 20/40GB tape drive.
> I'm trying to figure out shy it seems to take a long time
> to do a backup.  I have no prior experience with this type
> of drive so I was hoping ppl here would know best.  I'm backing up
> around 5GB now.  It takes a little more than 2 hours to do that
> backup.  So 20GB of data would take much longer.  Is this a realistic
> amount of time for a backup of this size?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
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