Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:13:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org (Andrew N. Edmond) Subject: Re: Tape Backup - some questions Message-ID: <199609281313.PAA02034@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960928003400.956b-100000@shaman.lycaeum.org> from "Andrew N. Edmond" at "Sep 28, 96 00:40:45 am"
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As Andrew N. Edmond wrote: > 1) What is a good Brand/Model of a SCSI-2 DAT tape backup sytem with 4 > gigs of straight (or 8 compressed) storage? HP-DAT. Don't ask me for the model number however. > 2) Can I configure dump to compress while backing up? I'd like to get as > much information as I can on each tape... ? No (not useful, even piping through gzip will be rather nonsensous), but since the drive understands hardware compression, i would prefer this one anyway. Double compression (software & hardware) is useless. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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