Greetings.

We currently use Turbostore in parallel, hardware compression on 4 DDS2
drives and 120m DAT's to backup up a clients 34GB 959/400.
It takes 2 Hours. (See below)

Question is, has anyone used the new DDS3 drives and if so, can they
provide capacities/timings?

Thanks.

Neil Harvey


Here are the statistics from the backup stdlist.

 BACKUP STATISTICS

 DATA WRITTEN


 SET 1
            FILE DATA     MISC DATA     TOTAL ON REEL
 MEDIA  1 | 8577045716  |   22413500  | 8599459216
 ---------+-------------+-------------+-------------
 SET 1
 TOTAL      8577045716      22413500    8599459216

 SET 2
            FILE DATA     MISC DATA     TOTAL ON REEL
 MEDIA  1 | 8159058264  |   18328632  | 8177386896
 ---------+-------------+-------------+-------------
 SET 2
 TOTAL      8159058264      18328632    8177386896

 SET 3
            FILE DATA     MISC DATA     TOTAL ON REEL
 MEDIA  1 | 8915637995  |   20907196  | 8936545191
 ---------+-------------+-------------+-------------
 SET 3
 TOTAL      8915637995      20907196    8936545191

 SET 4
            FILE DATA     MISC DATA     TOTAL ON REEL
 MEDIA  1 | 8524624000  |   46847548  | 8571471548
 ---------+-------------+-------------+-------------
 SET 4
 TOTAL      8524624000      46847548    8571471548

 SET TOTALS

 SET  1   | 8577045716  |   22413500  | 8599459216
 SET  2   | 8159058264  |   18328632  | 8177386896
 SET  3   | 8915637995  |   20907196  | 8936545191
 SET  4   | 8524624000  |   46847548  | 8571471548
 ---------+-------------+-------------+-------------
 BACKUP
 TOTAL      34176365975     108496876    34284862851

 THROUGHPUT
Å            MEDIA START TIME   MEDIA END TIME
    THROUGHPUT (K/S)   RETRIES
 SET 1
   MEDIA  1    7:52 PM            9:27 PM           1472 K/S         0

 SET 2
   MEDIA  1    7:52 PM            9:28 PM           1386 K/S         0

 SET 3
   MEDIA  1    7:52 PM            9:58 PM           1159 K/S         0

 SET 4
   MEDIA  1    7:53 PM            9:57 PM           1121 K/S         0

 TOTAL ELAPSED TIME: 2 hours, 5 minutes, 27 seconds