From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 5 13:23: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jig.ordway.org (jig.ordway.org [209.98.93.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A7D1545C for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:23:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpalmer@jig.ordway.org) Received: from localhost (cpalmer@localhost) by jig.ordway.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13773; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:20:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cpalmer@jig.ordway.org) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:20:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Christopher Palmer To: "Brian's Mail" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Tape Backup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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