Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site marvin.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!ukc!qtlon!marvin!cds From: cds@marvin.UUCP (Chris Seabrook) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Ethernet wisdom wanted Message-ID: <114@marvin.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 08:35:57 EST Article-I.D.: marvin.114 Posted: Fri Jan 11 08:35:57 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 04:47:22 EST Organization: Quantime Ltd, London Lines: 20 [] We have (or soon will have) 3 vax 750 running 4.2 on an ethernet (10 Mbit using Deunas). As we have a fair ammount of disk space we are worried about apeed and number of tapes involved in doing backups. I would like to hear from anyone who has experience of doing dumps accross an ethernet as we are considering in investing in 1 fast, hi density tape drive to backup all 3 machines. Is dump accross the as fast as dump locally, if not how much slower, how much is it affected by other traffic on the net, etc. Any replies (via email preferably) will be grateful received, I will summarise to the net if there is any interest. -- Chris Seabrook UUCP: {ENGLAND}!ukc!qtlon!cds qusavx!qtlon!cds PHONE: +44 1 637 7061