[geeks] Well, THAT was a setback

[der Mouse]

> Yeah.  I'd strongly recommend staging the backups to disk.  LTO-2
> requires 40MB/sec to stream, so you'll need reasonably fast disk to
> act as a cache.

Given how much RAM "modern" machines tend to have, you might consider
queueing data in RAM until you have, say, a gig, then dump it to tape.
Shoeshining is unlikely to be much of a problem if you are dumping it a
gig or so at a time. :)

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