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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: tape management systems, backup archive
Message-ID: <14489@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 88 13:18:22 GMT
References: <231@flinders.cs.flinders.oz> <278@tijc02.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <278@tijc02.UUCP> seb022@tijc02.UUCP (Scott Bemis) writes:
>... A complete monthly backup of 2 gigabytes of data took over 48 hours
>and (18) 2400 foot tape reels.

And I thought *we* had it bad at 6 hours for 2 GB! :-)  (This on an
8250 dumping from CDC9771s to TU80.  Fortunately, this will probably
drop to ~3 hours dumping to one 8mm tape [yes, the 8mm tape works
on the 8250 BI Unibus, despite recent comp.os.vms/info-vax mail].)

(Incidentally, 2GB is more on the order of 25 2400 foot reels at
1600 bpi.)
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