bru2000 is another. Not sure on the URL though.
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Brian D. Haymore
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On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Now that someone has started this thread :)
>
> Are there any other "industrial strength" backup solutions like arkeia out
> there?
>
> I got my quote for arkeia today, and it was 7 grand. No way on my budget.
> Amanda looks good, but not being able to append to tapes killed it for me.
>
> Anything else in that catagory? Commercial, open, whatever.
>
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> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Brian D. Haymore wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Thomas Seidel wrote:
> >
> > > I'm sorry this is a bit off-topic, but large raid sets need big backups ;-)
> > > My HP SureStore DAT24 stops after writing 12 GB of data to a DDS-3 tape. I
> > > suspect there must be something wrong with the compression. To verify this I
> > > need some additional information:
> >
> > How are you decicing that it is only 12GB? If you are looking at the
> > details of the specific tape and it shows 12GB used and 0GB free then
> > things are working right. That window shows the data that arkeia has put
> > on the tape. Remember that the data is already compressed. So you are
> > seeing the physical amount of data that the drive wrote to the tape, but
> > when you look at the fact that the data stream that got written was
> > already compressed you see that the logical amount written is more. If
> > you look at the log output from the backup you will see the compression
> > ratio that it achieved and do the math.
> >
> > > - What are the right dip switch settings of the DAT24?
> >
> > I've found that hardware and software compression equals bloated results.
> > The software compression by arkeia wins over the hardware compression for
> > our DLT library and our HP library, which is the same one you have.
> >
> > > - Did 'mt datcomression 2' really switch the compression on??
> > > - What is the best block size for the dump command???
> > > - Any other topics I have to look for????
> > >
> > > Oh, the box: kernel 2.2.9 & Adaptec AHA-2940 at 10 MB/s narrow sync, Dual
> > > Processor Board with two PII/400
> > >
> > > Thanx
> > > Thomas
> > >
> >
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