From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 17:39:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E043537B405 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:39:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A34F3786E1; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:09:38 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:09:38 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: Noor Dawod , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011120120938.M76318@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <002f01c17162$7d190550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002f01c17162$7d190550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 20 November 2001 at 2:27:09 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > On Monday, November 19, 2001 23:55, wrote: >> Hi Noor, >> >> generally from my experience I can't recomment DAT as a backup media. They >> are cheap but also not very durable. I rather recommend DLT or LTO drives. >> >> The reason for this is simple my experience showed me, that a DAT media >> gets unreadable after a year of use, then you have to buy new ones, with >> DLTs or LTOs I really can say they last very much longer (I admit my >> experience with LTOs is only for 2 years now ;-). > > I've never had trouble with DAT drives, and I've been using them for backups for > years. I've been using DDS (so-called DAT) drives for years too, and I've had nothing but trouble with them. I still estimate the average life to be about 18 months. > I verify every backup (not sure if this is possible on FreeBSD--?). Of course it is. I do that too. > I rotate through a dozen tapes or so. If you keep the drive clean > and verify the tape content so that you know it is readable, it > works very well. The latest DAT drives can put at least 24 GB on > one cassette. 40 GB. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message