Ecrix VXA tape drive performance

2000-04-01 Thread Jon Oplinger
tes up above 70MB/minute? BTW, I tried running Retrospect on the ASIP server, and when I arived the next morning, my server had locked up...no files had been backed up. Is this a known issue with ASIP 6.2? Jon Oplinger Howell, Ltd 477 Congress St Portland, Maine 04101 207-78

Re: Ecrix VXA tape drive performance

2000-04-02 Thread Jon Oplinger
>I have 2 VXA drives installed on an upgraded 8500 to a 300mhz G3. I get an >average of 160mb/min with an Adaptec 2940uw card. VXA has built-in >compression so turn off software compression. I downloaded the spec sheets and you're right...thanks. I had software compression turned on because I

Update: Ecrix VXA tape drive ..."content unrecognized"

2000-04-27 Thread Jon oplinger
I am getting much better performance from my VXA1 drive now. Manually disabling software compression (Retrospect is supposed to know if hardware compression is available, but this does not work in my case), and replacing a faulty ribbon cable in my external scsi case eliminated most of the proble

Re: Experience with VXA drive Retro 4.2?

2000-05-25 Thread Jon oplinger
; Try and disable software compression. I has slow copy speeds until I disabled software compression. I had assumed Retrospect would detect the VXA's native hardware compression, and ignore software compression. My speeds tripled after turning software compression off. Jon Opl