Re: NTBackup: Strange failure for part of backup

From: Dirk-Thomas Brown (youhadtoask_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:30:55 -0800

More like time to purchase a large capacity, hardware compression capable
tape drive. Travan has been extremely un-reliable and failure prone. Besides
the cost of the backup software to enable software compression ands allow
exchange backup costs probably more than the drive and some tapes. Not to
mention software compression will still NOT double your drive capacity...
you will be lucky to get 16 gigabytes...

I use VXA drives by ecrix http://www.exabyte.com/products/index.cfm#vxa
they are economical for small biz, (tape are $$$ though) but pretty fast,
efficient and reliable. They still come in various sizes and are IDE or scsi
(external USB is available but slow) my 2 cents!

Dirk-Thomas

"Peter Svensson" <peter@p2c.se> wrote in message
news:%23e6bXNLIFHA.3108@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Ouch, that hurt :) Time to buy Veritas products then maybe.
>
> /Peter
>
> Richard Swingwood wrote:
>> It's a long time since I used a Travan drive and of those I did use I
>> don't recall them even having hardware compression. I made use of Backup
>> Exec which would compress in software. Not much help to you of course...
>>
>> richard.
>>
>>
>> "Peter Svensson" wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Yes, you could be right there. I will have to look it over this weekend,
>>>strange that the tape doesn't use the hardware compression though...can't
>>>remember turning it off.
>>>Where can I check if it's enabled or not?
>>>
>>>/Peter
>>

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