From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 21 18:12:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA05583 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 18:12:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ritchie.loop.net (ritchie-inet.loop.net [207.211.60.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA05576 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 18:12:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patty.loop.net (patty-inet.loop.net [207.211.60.69]) by ritchie.loop.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id SAA03080; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 18:08:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 18:11:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Cassandra Perkins X-Sender: cassy@patty.loop.net To: Chris Shenton cc: zoonie@myhouse.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape Drives for backups? In-Reply-To: <199708152318.TAA27384@absinthe.i3inc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thanks for all the replies. Purchasing a Travan-4 drives seems to be the direction I'm going. The tapes are costly, but if they are as reliable as the 8mm tapes, it's worth it. The cost of the TR-4 drives are reasonable compared to a Exabyte 8mm tape drive, handling the same capacity. The tapes I believe are close in price. Thanks again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Cassandra M. Perkins | People usually get what's coming to | | Network Operations | them... unless it's been mailed. | | The Loop Internet Switch Co., LLC | -fortune | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Chris Shenton wrote: > On Fri, 15 Aug 1997 13:17:38 -0400 (EDT) > zoonie wrote: > > zoonie> from what i remember reading about the travan drives they were > zoonie> slow but i have never used one on freebsd. i currently use > zoonie> some refirbished exabyte 8200 8mm tape drives. they work > zoonie> great... > > Hi Carlos! > > I have a HP Colorado TR-4 drive. Cost about $350 mailorder. Tapes are > about $30-$35 each. They hold 4GB to 8GB. Transfer rate is said to be > about 30MB-60MB/minute. > > I like the fact that they're linear, modified QIC designs rather than > the delicate helical scan. > > But I haven't used mine enough in a production environment to put it > to the real torture test -- so far it's been fine though for my little > home net. > > They work fine under FreeBSD. I'm backing up a 2GB Sun over the net to > one attached to a 486dx100 FreeBSD-2.2 box. >