21 Jul
1999
21 Jul
'99
10:25 a.m.
<Someone who is very experienced has suggested doing a bulk erase
<on a TK50 tape and using it in a TK70 tape drive! Has anyone
<ever done so and what happened?
Ah, I believe TK50 and TK70 tape is different media (magnetics). That is
why the TK70 can only read TK50 formats.
<I want to decide if a TK70 is the drive for doing backups? It is
<more than twice as fast as a TK50 and the capacity is about
<4 times when a TK70 is used. Also, the "/VERIFY:ONLY"
<switch in BUP works very well taking less than double the
<time as a straight RESTORE.
This is a no brainer, TK70 is better. By then the technology is more
mature and fewer tapes will be needed to backup a large disk.
Allison