Re: [SLE] Tape Drives and compression

From: John Andersen (jsa_at_pen.homeip.net)
Date: 10/04/03

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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 20:52:07 -0800

    On Friday 03 October 2003 13:17, Greg Freemyer wrote:
    > As an FYI, I got my tape running with compression, but using pure tar as
    > my backup program I could not get it to stream (requires 15-30 MB/sec
    > depending on data compressibility).
    >
    > SuSE 8.2 includes "buffer" to work with tar and with the combination I
    > could get it to stream, but I lost the ability to write more than one
    > tapes worth of backup.
    >
    > I found "mbuffer" or "Measuring Buffer" on the web and I
    > downloaded/compiled/installed it.

    Greg:
    You might look into bru www.tolisgroup.com .
    I'm not related to bru folks, but am a happy user. 

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