Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:28:54 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DDS-2/DDS-3 drives Message-ID: <199904122028.NAA97638@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <l0313031db3348bd30c27@[203.17.167.17]>
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>Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 15:09:06 +1000 >From: Richard Archer <rha@interdomain.net.au> >DLT-7000 has superior performance only if your system can stream data to >the drive at the speed the drive writes to tape. As soon as the drive has >to stop, rewind and resynchronize, the performance drops back to DLT-4000 >levels, and the longevity of the drive falls remarkably. Which is an excellent reason to make use of software such as "amanda", which will (if you let it) use disk space on the "backup server" as a big speed-matching buffer... and (not-so-coincidentally) also permit concurrent dumps from multiple filesystems. Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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