My question is about preparing a blank tape to be used by a backup server.
Let's say you are setting up the server for the first time, and are using
Backup Sets A and B. If you put an erased tape in the drive, the backup
server has no way of knowing whether it is from Backup Set A or B, so it
Phil,
This is the only way to "initialize" tapes so that they are used for the
intended backup set. The other option is to have only one backup set in your
Backup Server script and rotate it out by editing it every week.
Please call if you'd like to discuss this further.
Matthew Tevenan
Technic
Hello Todd, I sent your question to my tech support engineers at Ecrix. Here is some
information that might help.
Frank,
We have tested both VXA-1 drives, single ended narrow and LVD. With the Mac
G3 you have to run the VXA-1 LVD on an LVD SCSI controller. The VXA-1 LVD
will not work on a sing
Hello,
I'm looking for feedback from anyone else who has been using a VXA
drive on a Mac with Retro 4.2. We are currently evaluating the VXA
drive in the internal configuration on the Fast SCSI-2 bus in a Power
Tower Pro 225 and have been seeing very mediocre throughput when
compared to th
Short and sweet.. I have TWO VXA drives in an 8500 upgraded to a G3 with a
newertech card and 192 megs ram. I threw in an Adaptec 2940UW card set it
to fast scsi-10 and I get 150 megs/min across the network. Local is even
faster. I'm surprised you got that answer from Ecrix. If anything call back
...and thus spake Greg Morin on this day of 5/25/00 11:43 AM:
>
>> So I did some testing: I created a 25 MB disk image file (single 25
>> MB file, all zeros) on the internal hard drive on the Fast SCSI-2
>> bus and backed it up to the VXA drive and then to the DDS-2 drive
>> using Retrospect 4.2
>>> VXA: 44 MB/m (46 copy/42 compare)
>>> DDS-2: 94 MB/m (60 copy/214 compare)
For "ideal" backups to VXA across 100Mb ethernet from a fast client
with large files, I see speeds like this:
Completed: 211 files, 315.2 MB
Performance: 123.6 MB/minute (122.0 copy, 125.2 compare)
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John Gee
