Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:12:05 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: hamilton@pobox.com (Jon Hamilton) Cc: kline@tera.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4mm tape drive question Message-ID: <199812192012.MAA23074@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199812191925.LAA08190@hub.freebsd.org> from Jon Hamilton at "Dec 19, 98 01:26:18 pm"
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According to Jon Hamilton: > > } > Gary Kline writes: [[ ... ]] > } As for gzip, I've used it (unnecessarily) and recovered everything > } succesfully. > > Out of curiosity, did it help any? If your drive can do hardware compression, > that may work out better; often that helps keep the tape streaming if nothing > else, and results in better tape usage. Way back in the Middle Ages of 1995, they prob'ly had no idea of hardware compression; and at any rate, this drive doesn't have it. Nope, just tar with it's -z flag. > > } I need to buy a second tape drive (4mm or 8mm) for sage and > } tar | dd across my net. ...The good news, of course, is that > } I'm never (?!) going to have 11G of data to backup. > > You'd have to be a slow learner to believe that :) You said yourself > that just 4 years ago, 2G was "a _lot_" of storage, and you've since > bought a 9G drive. I'm confident that your storage needs will continue > to increase, possibly even at an increased rate. With the continued > improvement of processing power, data sets are getting larger, and so > are applications. That trend is unlikely to reverse (or even to slow > appreciably). > Unfortunately! In '91 I coughed up a bazillion dollars for a 1.08G drive for my SVR4 system. Was certain that it would be (at least) decades before I'd ever be crunched, but within a few years I was running with filesystem slices at 90-95%. (*shrug*) gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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