Re: tape drives

[Steve Scherbinski <sski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

awilliam@whitemice.org wrote:

> 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.

Steve