From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 23:08:43 2005 Return-Path: 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 42D8C16A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:08:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23D343D31 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:08:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from suribe@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so135317wri for ; Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:08:40 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:organization:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=U36zBRXML7Qp4G6hkATBPLRzkcYyTZU9RYTrPXHyU24G3EJDWI9/Hc70V2AbTdEqS/W38jkidPCOGh8+ylGs53gqFnwPSldSE3dTpKPBaBrM4T9sy2kA8DXbCWcjxVbK1z5Iv95weSPWOKCpGhy3bmGE/aWYyAomQTj3wHk3JzU= Received: by 10.54.48.59 with SMTP id v59mr266440wrv; Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:08:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.11? ([200.123.164.9]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTP id 43sm44412wri.2005.02.02.15.08.40; Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:08:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <42015DC8.4070007@dc.uba.ar> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 20:10:00 -0300 Organization: Universidad de Buenos Aires User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <42014DFB.2010907@dc.uba.ar> <20050202225657.GB82546@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20050202225657.GB82546@alexis.mi.celestial.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Sebastian Uribe Subject: Re: Travan 3 Parallel Tape Backup in FreeBSD 4.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 23:08:43 -0000 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. > > -- --- Sebastián Uribe suribe@dc.uba.ar