In article <[log in to unmask]>, Declan
Hogan <[log in to unmask]> writes:
 
>I would be interested in peoples views on Road Runner and HP Turbo Store
on
>the XL Machine.
>
>I currently have BACKPACK V running on our Series 70 and it works fine.
We
>now need a compressed Backup (due to upgrade to 5.0) on our 937LX Machine
>and are looking at the Demo of Turbo Store which came with the Upgrade.
>
>I have no need at present for an Online Backup option my main requirement
is
>for compressed Backup.
 
For my $0.02 worth, and not to debate Road Runner vs Turbo Store, I would
strongly suggest *NOT* using software data compression.  You can pick up a
data compression DDS drive at a reasonable price thereby offloading the
compression/decompression from the HP3000 onto the DDS drive.  This really
makes a big difference to your system performance for stores/restores.
 
/isaac