What tape drive would you recommend?
Tony Hammitt
thammitt at kc.rr.com
Thu Mar 30 21:18:04 CST 2000
Yet another vote for DAT. I've had the same 2GB 4mm drive since 1994.
It works great in either Linux or Mac OS and I've never had a single
problem restoring the data. Cleaning tapes are relatively cheap
so I use one after _every_ use of the drive and otherwise leave the
drive turned off (it's external).
I now have a HEPA filterer running inside my computer case, so I
don't have much dust, but before the drive was just sitting on the
desktop. I just wish it was higher capacity or had native
compression...
See ya Wednesday,
Tony
Bradley Miller wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a tape drive to do backups on my Linux box for it and my
> network. What drive would you recommend? I'm just going to be backing up
> the data -- if anything blows chunks it'll get restarted from scratch.
>
> -- Bradley Miller
>
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