Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 20:10:00 -0300 From: Sebastian Uribe <suribe@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Travan 3 Parallel Tape Backup in FreeBSD 4.10 Message-ID: <42015DC8.4070007@dc.uba.ar> In-Reply-To: <20050202225657.GB82546@alexis.mi.celestial.com> References: <42014DFB.2010907@dc.uba.ar> <20050202225657.GB82546@alexis.mi.celestial.com>
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Bill,
Well... external drives ain't that cheap in Argentina, and we
already got this tape (which fits well with the amount of data we want
to backup), so we would really like to have it working.. :)
Thanks anyway for the advice.
Bill Campbell wrote:
>My experience with Travan tape drives has been uniformly bad, and I would
>avoid them almost as strongly as the old Colorado Memory Systems Jumbo
>floppy tape drives.
>
>Given the low cost of large external firewire and USB disks today, I would
>recommend using them rather than tape.
>
>
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Sebastián Uribe
suribe@dc.uba.ar
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