On Monday 25 November 2002 10:20, Sven Rudolph wrote:
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>OK, I was thinking about DLT7000 (5MB/s) and SuperDLT (11MB/s).

Ahh, at 10 to 25x faster, thats a whole ´nother animal in that case. 
:-)

>Unfortunately I currently cannot create numbers on bzip2
>compression/decompression time ...
>
>> OTOH, how often would that inconvienience actually occur? 
>> Recovery, while it should be done as quickly as possible, isn´t
>> such a part of the normal daily routine that one has to optimize
>> it to the lowest common denominator just to accumulate saved
>> time.
>
>Restoring some particular files (due to user error) happens about
> once a week. Here decompression time isn't critical unless you
> hit a level0 backup.

I see.  User errors I can see when you have other, non-technical 
users.  Here, I´m it, and it tends to be for crash recovery.  Like 
artsd died, and when I clicked on the OK button to clear the 
advisory, the machine was locked, taskbar clock stopped, the whole 
maryann.  Hit the hardware reset.  On reboot, e2fsck cleared about 
400,000 inodes on the / partition.  Recover maybe, but not of / as 
it wasn´t yet fully backed up from the last rebuild, so a full 
reinstall was 2 days quicker.  And thats the third time artsd has 
died and took the machine with it.  Its a POC.

>       Sven

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