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- From: dwn@dwn.ccd.bnl.gov (Dave Niebuhr)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Fast Backups of Data over Nets/Subnets
- Message-ID: <telecom13.41.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 15:48:38 GMT
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- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 41, Message 6 of 12
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- In TELECOM Digest V13 #29 From: na@princeton.edu (Nita Avalani)
- writes:
-
- > (2) Are there any high speed hardware/software alternatives to
- > restore/dump in Unix that would back up everything on the
- > nets/subnets? If so, what is the best product?
-
- Yes there are. AT&T has a product called ABARS that does this very
- quietly and fast. All data is stored on optical media and all
- iterations of files are backed up daily.
-
- We at Brookhaven National Laboratory have this system installed and
- I've found that retrieval is quite quick (under two minutes for a file
- of up to 20K bytes with most of the overhead being in finding the
- correct platter. It's even faster if the file or files are located on
- the same one.
-
-
- Dave Niebuhr Internet: niebuhr@bnl.gov / Bitnet: niebuhr@bnl
- Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 (516)-282-3093
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