This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: what are yall using to archive

Friday, January 18, 2013

[Avid-L2] Re: what are yall using to archive

"As a point of information the 1500 can do both .tar and LTFS but only
fashion victims use LTFS ;-)"

I've never had to setup or drive and LTO system but as an interested researcher I thought LTFS was what allowed access to LTO like a traditional drive where you can access individual files. That's what sounded very nice compared to a streaming tape of old. Am I understanding the LTFS correctly. It sound like there are issues but I'm no slave to fashion as anyone who has seen my SpongeBob Tshirt collection can attest to. ;-)

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Rupert Watson" wrote:
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> A lot of factors affect the speed. The processor of the PC the software
> is running on and to which the LTO drive is attached, the speed of the
> disks / network the files are coming from and the size and number of the
> files being archived.
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> In theory, with LTO 6, tape can do 160MB/s and store 2.5 TB but you
> aren't likely to see that sort of speed in a real world scenario.
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> To be honest the way in which the software accesses the files when you
> are restoring a whole lot of them from the "shelf" is where the speed
> comes from. In addition the fact that the archive GUI is in effect
> Windows Explorer makes it very human readable and user friendly.
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> As a point of information the 1500 can do both .tar and LTFS but only
> fashion victims use LTFS ;-)
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> Rupert Watson
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> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of mike cardeiro
> Sent: 18 January 2013 16:17
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] what are yall using to archive
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> > From: Rupert Watson rupert@... >
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> >And we also like the Xendata 1500 as it keeps a nice little stub file
> >that you can use to reaccess archived files by hand or using a MAM
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> >http://tinyurl.com/aj76z4j
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> Holy crap 148 megs a second to tape! Tape has come a long way since I
> used compact IV tape with arcserve software. Thanks for the link, I
> wasn't even thinking tape but this was an eye opener.
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