Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:20:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Christopher Palmer <cpalmer@jig.ordway.org> To: "Brian's Mail" <bellefso@execpc.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Tape Backup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904051517160.2998-100000@jig.ordway.org> In-Reply-To: <NCBBLDHPCJFJEDOEPEBFKEBGCGAA.bellefso@execpc.com>
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On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Brian's Mail wrote: > Can anyone give me any tips on the best tape drives to get? I want a SCSI > device, not floppy of IDE. Is there any support for the tape changers (HP > SureStore 24x6 etc.)? This is an odd and perhaps useless bit of advice. If you can afford it, get magneto-optical! It rules. Serious reliabilty in the media, and the drives are generally very high quality also. MO is slow (faster than tape) and expensive, but really great. I used an MO drive (the same cartridge) every night for two years, and never had a problem. Which is lucky, since I *did* have a few problems with the machine's hard drive. The MO came through in every case. If you *must* have tape, then I dunno -- I don't use tape at home. At work we use DAT and DLT; our DAT drive just bit the dust and we're replacing it today. DLT seems to be pretty reliable though (too bad I can't say the same for the NT machine it's backing up, though...). Christopher Palmer Assistant Systems Administrator, Ordway Music Theatre cpalmer@jig.ordway.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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