On Monday 21 January 2002 11:53 am, Thomas Hepper wrote: [...] >I'm not such a big expert in this area. I like only the white > ones. If i try the red ones the next day i have an big > headache.
It seems to be that way with me too, even if all the pundits keep trying to tell us the red ones are far better for our hearts in terms of cholesterol reductions and such. The reds give me more heartburn than the whites too. Thats not the real subject of this though. I just downloaded and built the Jan 29th archive and ran it through its paces for everything but a verify, and I must say that truely huge strides are being made in speeds, both in doing the backup, and in handling the changer itself, and doing it without errors that I've noticed. Whomever is responsible gets a couple of hurrahs from me! The real acid test is to take a floppy copy to work tomorrow and build it for that supposedly identical changer provided I can get it back up on the test bench . I've got a fiver that says its going to puke because that drive is trashed. If thats the case (although arkeia was running it ok with a tape change by hand when we took it out of Jims machine, we also found that the one time we needed a recovery, it refused) then I've lost the battle for tape over big disks in a raid, and a 3 (or more) drive raid of 160giggers will be the next step. I wonder how hard it would be to train amanda to rotate holding areas (partitions) on a raid instead of tapes? You know, .md/dump0, /md/dump1, /md/dump2, etc. With big drives coming online now, its beginning to look like a viable alternative to a $3k (or more, up to $29k) tape library that apparently won't last the 3 years we get for a HD warranty. Somethings wrong with this picture, the tape should be the better archival medium. but in fact the sealed disk will often outlast not only the tape, but the tape drive to read/write the tapes too. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 98.4+% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a hillbilly
