- To: Simon Bryan <sbryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Backup options
- From: Dave Fitch <davidf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Nov 8 13:15:01 2001
- Cc: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
- User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:15:17AM +1100, Jon Biddell wrote:
> 2. Use DDS3 tapes and you SHOULD get 24Gb per tape compressed, as opposed to
> 12 GB uncompressed - the only difference between DDS3 and DDS2 is that the
> DDS3 are 5 metres lnger (go figure !!).
you can get DDS4 now too.
(and don't rely on being able to fit the amount of compressed data
they claim, you can count on the uncompressed figure and in practice
will get somewhere between the two figures. Try a search on the
slug archives, this bit has been discussed before.)
Dave.
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