If you really want to shorten you backup time, maybe you should have a look at
BACKUP+/iX from ORBiT Software (www.orbitsw.com). In comparison with the MPE
store, you will divide your backup time by 4. We have a customer here in France
who is using Backup+/iX ONLINE and 2*DLT's 7000 in parallel and everything's
allright with time, performance and quality of the backup. Of course, you 'll do
as you want, but I can warantee it's worth having a look at it.

Xavier TREMOUREUX
Business Engineer
ORBiT Software France
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Carl McNamee a écrit:

> We have been using dlt4000 tape drives for a couple of years now and wanted
> to shorten our backup window so we decided to try the dlt7000.  When I
> finally received one and installed it on the system with all the latest DLT
> and Turbo Store patches we were surprised to find the backup times were
> exactly the same as on our DLT4000's!
>
> Puzzled by this I had several tests run; with compression, without
> compression, ect...... and each time the backup took almost exactly 30
> minutes.  The dlt7000 is connected to its own f/w scsi controller and is the
> only device in its card cage off of our 997/500.
>
> Has anyone on the list had a similar experience?  Any thoughts on why the
> tape drive would be so slow?
>
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