From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 23:23:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA04705 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 23:23:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA04694 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 23:23:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA29872; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:53:39 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id RAA16475; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:53:37 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:53:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Blackshare, Ray" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape drive Message-ID: <19990129175337.D8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: <951B30EE47A7D2118D4000A0C9EA3573042837@STLEXGSRV01> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <951B30EE47A7D2118D4000A0C9EA3573042837@STLEXGSRV01>; from Blackshare, Ray on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:27:18AM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 9:27:18 -0600, Blackshare, Ray wrote: > Looking for specs. on a tape drive that FreeBSD supports. Vendors (Exabyte, > HP etc) won't claim (guarantee) that their product is supported by FreeBSD. > Am considering an Exabyte SCSI internal 8mm drive model # 8700 or Eliant > 820. Can anyone recommend a good tape drive with minimum 4G back up, more > capacity compressed? I think the only good ones are DLTs, which cost an arm and a leg. DDS and Exabyte are just plain too unreliable, though they're getting better. For daily backups, you might consider a small number of large IDE drives. They'll be fractionally more expensive in the short term, but cheaper in the long run, and they'll certainly back up faster. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message