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From: jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: more SR10 questions
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Date: 5 Dec 88 21:05:08 GMT
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	That sounds like an excellent idea (backing up to files).  I think it
will probably solve most of my objections about speed of backups (since doing
a distributed search will undoubtably speed things up), but there is still
the problem that wbak writes slowly to the tape.  I believe 4.3 dump speed
should be achievable for a single file as far as keeping a streaming tape
drive busy to at least occassionally stream.

	I guess with a fast network you could always just rcp these files to
some machine with a faster tape system.

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