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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!news.cais.net!news.ac.net!imci4!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape drive for backup. Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:06:42 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 21 Message-ID: <315AFF62.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <Doy3z5.K2o.0.raindrop.seaslug.org@raindrop.seaslug.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Thomas Unger <unger@raindrop.seaslug.org> Thomas Unger wrote: > system is up, I'm using it, but it's not backed up. Each day I feel > more and more insecure but I'm not any closer to knowing what tape > drive to buy, and still a little fuzzy on what is supported (all SCSI? > no floppy?) floppy tape drives suck for so many reasons that I won't even contemplate recommending one. I think that for backup, where you'd like the media to also be somewhat robust and not self-destruct occasionally (4mm DAT is pretty fragile stuff, I've found!) then there's really only one choice: An 8mm Exabyte drive. You can also get 525MB QIC drives (I have two) but backing up multiple gigabytes is such a drag with those that I hardly ever use them for that purpose now. An Exabyte is also a fine method of data exchange, given that most folks have them. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project