OT: XP SP2 Security Hole / Backup Thread Appended

[Tom Palmquist]

Brian K. White stated the following on 10/4/2004 3:34 PM:

> 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 :)
> 
> Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/

Brian,


Why don't you wait for the release of the SCSI REV 10 drive
jukebox that I saw at SCO Forum, at Microlite's booth??

It is slated to hit the market this month (Tom, correct me
if I'm off on the date).

Then your co-worker wouldn't have to get all that excersize
running up & down the stairs.

Tom
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