Linux Backups: Tape Drives

[Monty J. Harder]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:37:11 -0600, Dustin Decker
<dustin.decker at 1on1security.com> wrote:

> I had a client some 7 years ago that had SCSI controller X, it shot craps,
> and data couldn't be recovered from drives because the firmware on the RAID
> controller was likewise not available, used a "funky" algorithm, etc.
> (Novell was part of that problem IIRC.)

  This is one of two reasons I recommend disabling any hardware
compression, and using software compression instead.  The other, of
course, is that software compression should be able to use a larger
dictionary and achieve better compression (but might be a bit slower,
and require some free disk space as a work area).

  Of course, my job is to clean up the mess when things break, and I
get to see just how spectacularly they can break.