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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.cloud9.net!cloud9.net!tls From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Backing up the whole 9 yards...??? Date: 1 Sep 1995 10:16:31 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA Lines: 32 Message-ID: <426mhv$3l9@news.cloud9.net> References: <DDHIzE.25r@agora.rdrop.com> <id.SCRM1.LNA@nmti.com> <41hdeu$c6@news.cloud9.net> <id.XFYM1.FFA@nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.net In article <id.XFYM1.FFA@nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: > >> DLT would be a good answer -- a great answer, really -- but the tapes cost >> three or four times what DAT tapes cost, even the ones that only store a >> little bit more data. > >They're *way* faster. We get about 3 times the transfer rate for DLT over >DAT... and what were you saying about helical scan in production use? I agree that DLT is really, really fast. Of course, using a tape that looks just like a TK50 still makes me expect to wait for _days_ to read even a few MB -- nice surprise! :-) I'm not sure what you mean about helical scan drives in this context; unless I'm very mistaken, the "L" in DLT is for "linear". One big reason why I like them. Rotating head<->movi tape is bad news IMHO. >> No kidding. But you really, really, really, REALLY should use the >> Kerberos support if you're using its network features; IP spoofing makes >> them extremely dangerous. > >We have our production network separate from our financial network, and >they're proxy-firewalled from the Internet. > >Kerberos I haven't figured out yet. It's sort of soggy and hard to light. Burns nicely when doused with gasoline however. Of course, so do DAT drives. (my preferred use for them ;-) -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@cloud9.net Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash. --Bo Diddley