RE: Back ups with Magstar 3570

["Burns, Bryan" <burnsbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Ann! We have been using the green tapes.  Our compression and
compaction is the same as yours. We use two tapes nightly to back up about
45 gb.  About 40 of that is MAPICS and the rest is in-house stuff.

I just talked to my vendor who said there is only a $13 in difference
between the red and green, due to some price hikes on the green.

Can I use the red and green interchangeably on the 3570 without changing any
settings? We use *DEVTYPE for tape density.



  

-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Neal [mailto:aneal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:42 AM
To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion
Subject: RE: Back ups with Magstar 3570


Bryan,

Are you using the red or green Magstar tapes?  Red ones hold quite a bit
more data than the green... also a bit more expensive.   Also the MAPICS
defaults for data compression and/or data compaction were not the most
effective.  We have our MAPICS backup settings as Data Compression = 2 and
Data Compaction = 1.  Also Tape format is FMT3570E.  These settings seem to
really make a difference in the number of tapes used.

ann and kay and donald from LeTourneau