with removable IDE kits being so cheap, one could even be stored offsite.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Inexpensive Tape Drive
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:52:37PM -0400, Robert Haeckl wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> My experience with tapes has been uneven. I still use them, but I don't
> trust them. I've had too many tapes eat bytes and then be unwilling to
> spit them back out properly, just when I needed the bytes. Including
> under DOS and Windows. Plus tapes and drives are expensive when you get
> them in the size capable of backing up modern high-capacity hard drives.
> And they take a helluva long time to do a full backup on a large drive.
>
> As I said, I do use tapes, but a better solution is to mirror your hard
> drive to another hard drive for daily backups. It's very fast, and the
> likelihood of both drives going down at the same time is low. Then you
> can do regular tape backups for something more transportable and
> permanent.
>
> Paul
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