Thanks, Bill.
I have another cold swap tray in my box and a spare HD (I think it has
W98 on it) and I'll use that. I've heard of failures with tape drives
but I thought they were still used widely, especially to backup
databases on raw partitions. I may still get a cheap tape drive just to
play with it and see for myself how unreliable it is.
-Robert
Bill Ehlert wrote:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> I suggest looking at using cheap 20 to 30 Gig hard drive mounted in a mobile
> rack for backup.
> I stopped using tape backups years ago because they took too long and failed
> when you really needed to restore files.
>
> I got four 20 Gig 5400 RPM for $60 per and two 30 Gig 7200 RPM for $100 each
> on sale at CompUSA over the last year or so. The mobile racks cost $20 each
> and allow you to pop the drives in and out quickly.
>
> A cool feature is there is no additional tape or special software required
> to use the hard drive - the drivers and software come with your system.
>
> Shop around and compare what products are available to do the job you need.
> I did, and its the mobile racks and hard drives for me. They are reliable
> and fast. I backup 10 to 20 Gigs every week or so without problems rotating
> or cyling drives.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Haeckl" <rhaeckl@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 3:27 PM
> Subject: [SLUG] Inexpensive Tape Drive
>
> | Looking to buy an inexpensive tape backup drive either new or maybe from
> | Ebay. Would like to put a full backup and a week's worth of daily
> | incrementals on one tape (~8-10 GB ought to be enough). I've been
> | tarring selected directories onto a zip disk and occasionally burning an
> | archive, but I would prefer to do full backups. Anybody have
> | suggestions or preferences? ATAPI vs. SCSI? Seagate vs. HP vs.
> | OnStream vs. ...? 8mm vs. Travan vs. ADR vs. ...?
> |
> | -Robert
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