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FYI Thought this would be interesting to those who may be tempted to save a few dollars when upgrading a tape drive by cintinuiing to use old tapes. This customer had a 6385 (MLR1-16GB and MLR1-13GB tapes) and went ot a new system with a 6384 (SLR60). The first few nights, until they received the new tapes, they used the old MLR1-13GB tapes (26GB with compression), then switched to the new SLR30-60GB tapes. Here's a comparison of a SAVALL backup (Save Entire System) run on two consecutive nights on their new 270-2432. The only difference between the two nights is that the first backup was run on their old 13/26GB tapes (QIC5010 or MLR1 format) and the second night was run on new 30/60GB tapes (SLR60 fornat). They have a 6384 (30/60GB QIC SLR60 format) tape drive. Using QIC5010 format on MLR1-13GB or MLR1-16GB tapes this drive is rated at 1.5M/sec. It uses a block length of 32,760. Using SLR60 format on SLR60-30GB tapes this drive is rated at 4.0M/sec. It uses a block length of 262,144 (except first part of SAVSYS is 32,760). Backup Task QIC5010 format SLR60 format SAVSYS 14 min 48 sec 8 mn 40 sec SAVLIB QGPL/QUSRSYS 37 sec 23 sec SAVLIB *NONSYS 50 min 11 sec 19 min 04 sec SAVDLO *ALL 13 sec 11 sec SAV /* 19 min 11 sec 5 min 28 sec Bytes written 16.877GB 16.912GB System is a 270-2432 with batch CPW 1070. 5 x #6718 17.548GB disks (RAID-5) System ASP 70.19GB - 27.46% full. Neil Palmer DPS Data Processing Services Canada Ltd. Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. OS/400~~~~~ Phone:(519) 653-1027 ____________ ___ ~ Cell.:(416) 565-1682 |OOOOOOOOOO| ________ o|__||= Pager:(416) 501-1682 |__________|_|______|_|______) mailto:NeilP@DPSlink.com oo oo oo oo OOOo=o\ http://www.DPSlink.com IBM iSeries The Ultimate eServer
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