Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 10:10:08 -0400 From: Glen Foster <gfoster@osmre.gov> To: peter@taronga.com Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape drive FAQ Message-ID: <199604081410.KAA03959@nomad.osmre.gov> In-Reply-To: <199604081311.IAA19012@bonkers.taronga.com> (peter@taronga.com)
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Pony up the money and get a good DAT! A year from now you won't miss the money and not having to swap tapes during a dump gives you back part of your life. BTW, where did you see a DAT (DDS1, I assume) for $550? > Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 08:11:05 -0500 > From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) > Precedence: bulk > > Here's the sort of thing I'd like to be able to answer from the FAQ: > > OK, I've got all these DC600 cartridges around the place. I'm using an > Archive QIC-02 drive through an MT-02 SCSI-QIC adaptor. I'm looking for > a better tape drive and there are some decent-capacity SCSI-QIC drives > I can probably convince my wife to go for, that are big enough I can use > Amanda profitably (600MB partitions don't go into 60M tapes even if I get > Amanda to use gzip-9). But am I going to lose it on the cartridge cost? > > She's ruled out DAT unless I can get a DAT drive for well under the $550 > that's the best price I can manage. I'll be damned if I'm going to buy one > of those ghastly Floppy Tape things without Jesus Monroy's mythical driver. > > What's the FAQts/conventional wisdom on this?home | help
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