Re: tape drives

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I  On a 13Gb filesystem to a DLT4000 drive, the best
> > commercial package was 1 minute faster backing up than tar and took
> > only a few minutes less to find a specific file a restore it,  so I'm
> > a backup-software skeptic.
> 
> The problem with tar and cpio that the better commercial backup software
> corrects is that the commercial software verifies the tape after writing
> where tar doesn't.  It doesn't matter how fast your backup/restore is if you
> don't have a good backup and your data is corrupt.

I was told once that DDS tapes verify after writing in the hardware.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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