Re: [cobalt-developers] RE: 40GB in Qube3

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim,

on 14/3/02 4:48 AM, Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>>> I'm not so concerned about SW failure as I am hardware.  But I am working
>>> on a solution for backups.  Not sure what I am going to do...
>> 
>> Don't forget dump/restore.  We are using this with our qube3 and a vxa
>> drive.  Works very well.
> 
> I don't have a 120 G capable tape driver :)

I use a Firewire VXA drive connected to a W2K PC running a popular backup
solution and a Linux client on my Qube3.  Full and incremental backups and
restores are done across the LAN and can easily span multiple tapes.

Capacity of a single piece of media is not necessarily a limitation.

Cheers,  Malcolm