[rescue] Slow DDS backups

David Rouse david at rouseworld.org
Sat Oct 19 13:31:18 CDT 2002


Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc at linuxweasel.com>

>Uh, it's a DDS drive, you say?  Sounds pretty fast to me.  I did one
>backup to a DDS2 tape drive I got, and about 8 hours later it was
>finished writing to the tape.  I tossed both of them in a corner,
>they're not worth using.  

Well, it was free ... better bad than nothing I guess.

Work has a surplus 8mm drive (in a little IPX looking case) -- is that format
better (speed + reliability) than DDS2?

-- 
David Rouse



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