On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Hugh Fox wrote: > Have you ever had the SLOWWWW restore speed that I got from my HP-DAT3?
I've had experience of HP-DDS3 drives being slow too. I thought it was because they aren't capable of fast spooling/seeking, but another engineer was telling me it might be related to the level of detail about what's on the tape and where. Some commercial offerings, like Arcserve, seem to have a more detailed catalogue of every block on the tape and zoom straight to it and restore files in seconds rather than the minutes (or tens of minutes) I experience under flexbackup on my DDS3. I might test this with a DDS4 I have access to... -=-=-==-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Graeme Robinson - Graenet consulting www.graenet.com - internet solutions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==---=-=--=-=-= -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
