Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 02:27:09 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "Noor Dawod" <noor@comrax.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD Message-ID: <002f01c17162$7d190550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <OF7F945520.F850FFD8-ONC1256B09.007D8B2D@use.ch>
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I've never had trouble with DAT drives, and I've been using them for backups for years. I verify every backup (not sure if this is possible on FreeBSD--?). 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. I don't keep backups for a year; they go back about three months and that is it. Stuff that has to be kept longer than that is set aside and burned onto a CD-R, as I consider anything kept that long to be an archive, not a backup. ----- Original Message ----- From: <FreeBSD@hm.homeip.net> To: "Noor Dawod" <noor@comrax.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 23:55 Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD > > 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 ;-). > > - Joe > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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