From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 17: 8:10 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 4E50637B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 17:08:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88FB243EDA for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 17:08:08 -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 gBL17uH07067; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:07:56 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200212210107.gBL17uH07067@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Tape Backup To: irwanhadi@phxby.com (Irwan Hadi) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:07:56 -0500 (EST) Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Jerry McAllister), bjm1287@ritvax.rit.edu (Brian McCann), lists@redlamb.net ('Peter Erickson'), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20021220170837.GA24417@phxby.com> from "Irwan Hadi" at Dec 20, 2002 10:08:37 AM 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 > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:33:11AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > If your usage justifies the cost, you might want to consider DLT > > or LTO type drives. They handle the load with less failure and > > higher capacity and data rates. > > I'm using Sony AIT-2 and it works great. The benefit of using AIT is > that you don't need to clean your tape drive at all, and it also in a > continuous development with AIT-3 has been launched (100/200 capacity). Yah, we have several AIT systems here too and are having pretty good luck with them too - though, I can't support the NEVER have to clean the tape drive. Rarely, yes, but Never, no. ////jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message