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From: rcsmith@anagld.UUCP (Ray Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.misc
Subject: Fastest way to backup 300MB
Message-ID: <516@anagld.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 88 15:10:33 GMT
Reply-To: rcsmith@anagld.UUCP (Ray Smith)
Organization: Analytics, Inc., Columbia, MD
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I have a situation where I need to be able to backup 300MB of data
in less than 30 minutes. This will probably be done on a Sun system.

My question is, what would be the fastest way of doing this?

	- Copy all of the files to a removable drive?
	- Dump to tape?
		- Which format (tar, dump, cpio, tpio)?
		- What kind of blocking factors?
		- Which tape drives and controllers are fastest?
		- Should we use an Exabyte(sp) drive?
	- Remote dump over Ethernet?(nah)

Anyone have any thoughts on these questions?

Thanks,
Ray
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