From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 17:42:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D361B37B405; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:42:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fAK1gcG15467; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 02:42:38 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <007f01c17164$a3284c40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: "Noor Dawod" , References: <002f01c17162$7d190550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120120938.M76318@monorchid.lemis.com> Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 02:42:32 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 Greg writes: > I've been using DDS (so-called DAT) drives for > years too, and I've had nothing but trouble with > them. What sort of trouble, and what brand of drives are you using? And the obvious question: if they are so much trouble, why have you been using them for years? > I still estimate the average life to be about > 18 months. The average life of what? Media or the drive? Eighteen months is a long time to be keeping regular backups. Beyond 6-12 months, I call it an archive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message