We recommend one (or two) DLT4000 (digital Linear Tape) drives, which we assume RR will support. Our customers using DLT4000 drives (in conjunction with our BACKUP/3000 software), have seen throughput of over 20GB per hour to a single drive, and capacity exceeding 80GB on a single tape, (your mileage may vary ;-), so even without writing to two DLT drives in parallel, your backup time should diminish significantly. Paul Meszaros ORBiT Software [log in to unmask] 800-89-ORBiT ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Looking for backup solutions Author: [log in to unmask] at internet Date: 10/14/97 10:44 AM >From: RAWILSO >Subject: Looking for backup solutions How much is too much for dds tapes? I currretly have 44 gig of disk and see that growing to 70 gig in the next year. I have two dds tape drives and use 90mm tapes. I use Roadrunner for backups and use the RR compression. Backups are running longer and longer. What should I be looking at in the way of hardware (tape drives) to handle the growing volume.