It looks like DAT and DLT SCSI units seem to be the preferred tape
drives that are in my budget range. I'm hoping to pick up a used one
cheap (new tapes, though). The HD idea is something I have immediately
available but would like to emulate a tape backup with separate
full/incremental files on one volume (HD), rather than mirroring.
-Robert
Glenn Meyer wrote:
>
> I use an HP SureStore 5000 (4mm Dat DDS1 2GB tapes) with an Adaptec 2940
> adapter. I use the Dump and Restore utils. So far it has worked well but
> is slow and too small. I also have a Yamaha CD-RW, but again too slow and
> too small for backups. I am going to switch over to backup to extra hard
> drives as suggested on the list. Makes a lot more sense to me because fo
> the speed - and being able to restore on another system if need be.
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: herrold
> Reply-To: slug@nks.net
> To:
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Inexpensive Tape Drive
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:03:56 -0400 (EDT)
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Robert Haeckl wrote:
> >Has anybody used a tape drive? If so, what brand was it and was it any
> >good?
> Any SCSI 4 MM dat or a full size DLT, works just with Linux -- I
> would avoid IDE based drives, and travan hardware for reliability
> reasons.
> -- Russ
>
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