Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:08:50 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: lists@redlamb.net (Peter Erickson) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Backup Message-ID: <200212161608.gBGG8og14972@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20021215005704.GA440@mirage.redlamb.net> from "Peter Erickson" at Dec 14, 2002 06:57:04 PM
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> > 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
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