OT: XP SP2 Security Hole / Backup Thread Appended

[D. Thomas Podnar]

|Snip...
| So, it's doing better than the old box. But now hearing about Johns tape 
| being off it's stride and doing only 700 megs/min, that 77 sounds pretty 
| lame. But the rev cost something like $450 and I don't even wanna think what 
| an ait drive goes for. :)

Remember, in relative (CTAR) terms, the ATAPI REV was delivering 245.06
megaytes per minute, NOT 77 MB/min. This is actually faster than the
native write speed of ATAPI under SCO, so it's not too bad.

Maybe we should add a "relative" statistic to the BackupEDGE logs.

The SCSI would definitely be a lot faster, especially during the
verify/index phase.

| Just for the record, even when I thought it was performing badly, I never 
| thought it was the software, strictly hardware.
Thanks.

| I quite like backupedge and it's especially cool that the rev drive looks 
| like a cd or dvd to the bios and so is bootable, and how backupedge just 
| cranks out a iso image and tacks it on the front of the backup so that every 
| backup is bootable and contains it's own copy of recoveredge and so all you 
| need to restore the whole box from scratch is one solitary rev carttridge, 
| and any one will do.
| 
| The rev wasn't available in scsi yet when we ordered our box else we'd 
| definitely have gotten that.

I have every tape drive you can think of (and even some you can't think of,
since they are pre-release, in for testing). The REV is really putting
pressure on the small/medium devices.

Perhaps you can relegate the ATAPI REV to a Linux or UnixWare box somewhere
and put a SCSI REV in the OpenServer box.

Tom Podnar

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