Tape Backup

[KeithSmith]

Hi Mike,

I'm building an entry level web server and this
tape drive is going into it.  I should only hope
that I will do so much hosting that this IDE tape
drive becomes too slow.  The amount of data I have
at this point will take seconds to backup.

I hope to be blessed with 30 GIGs of hosted data. 
That would be large!

Thank all of you for your replies.  This whole
thing is a big challenge to me.  I was a FoxPro
programmer, so as you can see this is a switch.

Thanks again,
Keith


Mike Cantrell wrote:
> 
> Well... I looked at the specs for your drive and it does a Meg/sec.... 30
> gig's would take just over 8 hours (if my math was correct :) where most
> SCSI backups can double that figure and do the same backup in only 4 hours.
> That would be one reason.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike Cantrell
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <holtzm@primenet.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 11:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Tape Backup
> 
> > At 07:37 PM 05/30/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> > >
> > >For an IDE tape drive it's probably /dev/ftape, I think. IDE sucks for
> > >backups :).
> >
> > Care to educate me as to why it sucks?
> > TIA
> > Bob Holtzman
> > "If you think you're getting free lunch,
> > check the price of the beer!"
> >
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