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From: Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net>
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Subject: Re: Recommendations for Tape Drives?
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:36:35AM -0500, Jason A. Crome wrote:
>
> I am in the process of setting up several x86-based FreeBSD servers and will
> be in need of a quality backup solution.
>
	I'd consider ATA based DDS-4 tape drive. I have the
   Seagate DDS-4, in SCSI, and it works fine w/out any fooling
   around.

	Use dump and restore to do incremental backups, and you
   should be fine.

							Bruce
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