Michael,

You can go directly to your tape drive but you must realize, your
backups/archives will backup (queue) if you don't have enough tape
drives.
While a disk backup pool can handle many backups at once, a direct
to tape backup must wait it's turn. One thing we did discover regarding
direct to tape backup, was a tremendous increase in data transfer rate.
Going to our disk pool we averaged 700kb/sec. But when we directed the
data to our tape pool, we got 3Mb/sec..(3590 tape drives)

Mark Rizzo
DoD


>> From:         Michael Castillo[SMTP:mcastill AT UTEP DOT EDU]
>> Sent:         Tuesday, March 25, 1997 11:37 AM
>> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>> Subject:      tape storage vs. disk storage
>>
>>         Does anyone out there just dump to tape only and not store
>> data on
>> disk(ex.3390,3380)? Can this be done?
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael A.Castillo
>> Software Systems Specialist
>> Ph:747-5256
>> Fax:747-5067
>> Beeper :546-3756
>> E-Mail: mcastill AT utep DOT edu
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