ccc@dayton.UUCP (Chad Cooper) (09/07/90)
I'm posting this for a friend... -------- My company currently does backups nightly. Full backups take about 7-8 hours. My boss has asked me to investigate CTAR (and possibly similar products) in an attempt to shorten this time (giving us a larger window for the rest of our nightly processing). So -- does anyone out there know anything about CTAR from Unitrends? I have their blurb, but I'm wondering how it's different from just pipping the output from tar into compress and then to tape. Also, does anyone know of other products that can speed my backups? Standard SysV products just seem so much slower than they need to be. (Yes, it *is* nearly a gig of data we're reading/copying to tape, but still....) Drop a note to joel@crystal.mn.org if you could -- otherwise ccc will have to forward it back. Thanks. -Joe -------- Joe Larson joel@crystal.mn.org 612-542-1245(w) Crystal Foods 612-591-1037(h) 6465 Wayzata Blvd St. Louis Park, Mn 55426