[CLUE-Tech] Tape Drives - why?

[Collins Richey]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:48:37 -0400
Adam Bultman <adamb at glaven.org> wrote:


> 
> Interesting thing to note here, is what I'm told is a new 'paradigm'
> in backing up (something I might actually try sometime in the near 
> future):  Evidently some people have been buying a couple large hard 
> drives, backing up to those, and then using the tape to back up that -
> 
> it both allows for quicker backups on the servers (instead of writing
> to slow tape, you zip it off to the large, IDE drives, probably in a
> fast server with a gigabit connectino to the switch) and then
> transfering it to tape. 

Obviously I haven't kept up with backup tape technology. I come from a
mainframe background, and in that environment tape drives are an order
of magnitude faster than any disk drive. Are backup tapes for the linux
environment that slow?

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