Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:29:15 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive recommendations? Message-ID: <20020402152915.A8109@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <3CAA3639.2030401@mac.com>; from paulbeard@mac.com on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:52:41PM -0800 References: <3CAA3639.2030401@mac.com>
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--AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:52:41PM -0800, paul beard wrote: > I have a 4.5-RELEASE system and have just taken possession of an=20 > AHA-2940 ultra scsi card: I think it's time I took a serious look=20 > at backing stuff up. Someone gave me a tape drive that turned out=20 > to be an floppy tape unit, unsupported under FreeBSD. So I'm=20 > looking to do it right this time. Any either recommended units or=20 > brands and formats? >=20 > I don't have but a few Gb of stuff to back up, 10 at the outside=20 > for now. The most any machine will take up is 2-3 Gb. Boxes I'd=20 > like to have backed up range from Mac OS 9/X to FreeBSD and NetBSD. In that size range you might look for a refirb DDS-2 drive (4GB native). I'm seeing them at tapeserv.com[0] for $160. You could probably do better then that on e-bay. You can get TRAVAN drives for less, but media is generally more expensive so if you make regular backups (I run backups every weekday night) you'll soon be paying more then you would have with a more expensive drive. -- Brooks [0] I don't really know anything about them other then they seem to have the best prices pretty consistantly on shopper.cnet.com. --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8qj7KXY6L6fI4GtQRAk44AKCjLt1Qfr0xasucwI/Ze9NVEcJgLACgl5Wd liMrsOLqwUNRQsTRaljLvtA= =65T7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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