From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 8: 8:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 511DE37B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:08:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A864443EDE for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:08:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gBGG8og14972; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:08:50 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200212161608.gBGG8og14972@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Tape Backup To: lists@redlamb.net (Peter Erickson) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:08:50 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20021215005704.GA440@mirage.redlamb.net> from "Peter Erickson" at Dec 14, 2002 06:57:04 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I am running Freebsd 4.6 and my dds-2 tape backup drive just died on me. > I am interested in moving up to a bigger capacity drive so does anyone > have any recommendations? I am not interested in anything high end, this > is just for my system at home. I was looking at the dds-3 drives, but > before i went out and bought one, I would like opinions and or > recommendations. Thanks in advance. We have DDS-3 drives on a number of systems and mostly they work well. We have a couple of systems that cannot be written/read with dd or cp which causes us a problem and we haven't discovered a reason yet. Those are all on Dell systems, but I don't remember the drive model[s]/maker[s] at the moment. Interestingly enough, tar will still write/read them. Besides that problem, keep in mind that DAT, though a nice format for light duty work, doesn't seem to be designed to handle really heavy demand work - nearly 24/7 backup work of multiple systems or whatever. ////jerry > > -- > Peter Erickson > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message