RE: backup takes too long

What hardware do you have? You can probably buy a much faster tape drive an significantly reduce your backup time. -- I am currently writing a book for O'Reilly Publishing about enterprise backup and recovery, and would really appreciate hearing anything you would like to ask me or tell me. If you have problems with something, then others will as well. Can you think of anything else that should go in such a book? -- Eve answers Curtis question: Backup Hardware info: We have HP9000/HP70 Dual 96Mhz PA-RISC, 512 Mbyte RAM, One 1GB Internal Single-Ended Scsi = Disk Drive, Six 2GB External F/W/S Disk Drives, Two 2-8GB Dat Tape Drives = etc etc. Tape parameters: Tape Device [/dev/rmt/1hc] Block size [64] Kbytes Tape size [1900000] Kbytes Presently using 4mm tapes. Level 0 informix backup takes 10-12 hours = depending upon system activity... presently 8 tapes. Not sure if the = backup size can be cut down in hours if so what can be done? Also, I am = looking for some type of tape drive that can be purchased that can back = up our system automatically... without someone being there to change = tapes. Any suggestions? Thanks, Eve