From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Feb 1 15:06:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01736 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 15:06:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01726 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 15:06:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA20270; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:36:40 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id JAA73720; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:36:40 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:36:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Don Lewis Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drives... Message-ID: <19990202093640.O71384@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199902011305.FAA08479@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199902011305.FAA08479@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>; from Don Lewis on Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 05:05:11AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 1 February 1999 at 5:05:11 -0800, Don Lewis wrote: > I'm also in the market for a backup solution for home. I haven't had > very good experiences with anything here at work. > > On Jan 31, 9:29am, Matthew Jacob wrote: >> Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drives... > >> All these units support reasonable commands, but there are other >> criteria to consider: >> >>> Likelihood (or not) of tapes jamming/breaking (I'm a bit >> prejudiced against DAT for this) > > I've never had a *that* problem with DAT. We used to see it on our > old Exabyte 8200's. > > I've managed to kill off a number of DAT drives running Amanda here at work. > When doing 500 MB to 1GB backups five nights a week, the HP DAT drives that > we're using only seem to last about a year before starting to get massive > write errors. This ties in pretty much with my experience. > The last drive lasted nearly two years, possibly because I fed it > the cleaning tape once a week instead of every other week. Or possibly because they're getting better. >> Media cost > > I'd guess that 8mm and DAT come in first and second here. There's not much in it. FWIW I've found that DDS tends to be cheaper than 8mm. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message