Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:00:57 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) Cc: cvarda@ig.com.br, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise ATA RAID and IDE Tapes Message-ID: <200011080500.WAA16735@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20001107164630.08370050@marble.sentex.ca> from Mike Tancsa at "Nov 7, 0 04:48:17 pm"
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As I recall, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Also, I find a *much* higher failure rate with the travan cart tapes. > We gave up on the technology a few months ago and just stick with DAT > drives. The initial cost is a little higher, but cheaper in the long > run, not to mention more reliable. Absolutely. My wife's machine has a Travan drive. It cost about $200. My server has an HP DAT drive. It cost about $400. But her tapes cost $70 for a box of three, and my tapes cost less than $4 each. If you keep a history rotation on your backups, it doesn't take very long to come out even. Plus, doing native backups on her machine take about 2 hours. I can use "smbtar" (a shell script wrapped around smbclient) to back up her machine over our network in less than a half hour. My vote? Buy a serious tape drive (DAT, DLT) on a server, and back up everything to it. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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