TIHOR@NYU-CMCL1.ARPA (Stephen Tihor) (01/19/86)
When last I spoke to someone technical from Raxco (previous DEXPO) they admitted that RABBIT-5 was comperable in speed and protections to BACKUP running with no CRC and no XOR blocks. (I.e. /NOCRC/GROUP=0 ) Whoopee. \\ Stephen Tihor / CIMS / NYU / 251 Mercer Street / New York, NY 10012 // (( DEC Enet: RHEA::DECWRL::"""TIHOR@NYU-CMCL1.ARPA""" NYUnet: TIHOR.CMCL1 )) // ARPAnet: Tihor@NYU-CMCL1 UUCPnet address: ...!ihnp4!cmcl2!cmcl1!tihor \\ -------
$ABS@CLVMS.BITNET (AB Stine) (09/11/86)
Has anyone had any experience with the fast backup program from Raxco called Rabbit-5? We are looking into expanding our facilities and from the info I have seen, Rabbit-5 looks ALOT better than BACKUP. Art Stine Systems Programmer ERC Clarkson University Potsdam, NY 13676 (315)268-2292 Bitnet: ABSTINE@CLVMS
McGuire_Ed@GRINNELL.MAILNET (09/15/86)
*** Sorry, it got away from me the first time... *** >Date: Thu, 11 Sep 86 11:36 EDT >From: AB Stine <$ABS%CLVMS.BITNET@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> >Subject: Rabbit-5 >To: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa >Has anyone had any experience with the fast backup program from Raxco called >Rabbit-5? We are looking into expanding our facilities and from the >info I have seen, Rabbit-5 looks ALOT better than BACKUP. Rabbit-5 is certainly FASTER than VMS BACKUP. In fact, it also uses less tape than VMS BACKUP. This is because Rabbit-5 does not compute CRC or write redundancy blocks on the tape. You can also make VMS BACKUP run just as fast by using /NOCRC/GROUPS=0 (I think that's right). Boy does it go fast. However! Backup speed is secondary to the real goal, which is a reliable backup of the data. I would never use a product such as Rabbit-5 for my backups, just as I would never turn off VAX BACKUP's redundancy features. This is because tapes just are not reliable enough for our needs without these special features. But if I did want to run a "quickie" backup, I would still use VAX BACKUP and turn off CRC and redundancy blocks, rather than buying a separate product.