From: drew@lethe.gts.org (Drew Sullivan) Subject: Re: 500MB Viper Archive Tape Drives (?) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 02:26:21 GMT
In article <1993Jun16.031115.11663@super.org> pcolsen@super.org (Peter C Olsen) writes:
>I'm looking for help from someone who has used Viper Archive Tape
>drives, particularly if someone with experience using DC6250 tapes.
>
>I just bought and installed a Viper Archive 2150 tape drive for use
>under Linux. The person who sold it to me told me that it would run
>reliably with 250MB tapes --- and that I could get about 500MB by
>compressing my data. Does anyone have any experience doing this? Is
>it reliable? Does it damage the drive?
>
>I'd appreciate any information.
The only difference between the 150 and the 250mb tapes is the
tape length (600vs1000ft) and no using the 250mb tapes wont be
a problem. As for the compression ratio that total depends on
your data. Gifs don't compress at all, text compresses by a
factor of 2. I never run compressed on my backups since a single
bit error means the rest of the compressed file (and with linux tar
in compressed mode; the rest of your data on tape) is useless.
-- -- Drew Sullivan, <drew@lethe.hades.gts.org> -- Toronto, Ontario, Canada