OT: XP SP2 Security Hole / Backup Thread Appended

[Brian K. White]

D. Thomas Podnar wrote:
>> 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

Ultimately I want to put *something* within arms reach of my co-workers desk 
so that he doesn't have to visit the server to change the tapes, which is up 
a flight of stairs, through 2 doors, and almost on the ground as the server 
is near the bottom of a rack. A laptop running rmt on linux and an external 
drive is not out of the question but that only gives me 100Mb net 
connection. A scsi drive in a external bay with a scsi card added to his pc 
would be better I think, and I can use a gigabit net connections just for 
the purpose too, even with dedicated nics on both ends although that 
shouldn't be necessary.

This would be something for _my_ copious free time :)

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