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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.uoregon.edu!cibnor!cibnor!lmiller From: lmiller@cibnor.cibnor.conacyt.mx (Larry Miller [DT]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape drive for backup. Date: 1 Apr 1996 15:51:03 GMT Organization: Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4jou17$9bk@cibnor2.cibnor.conacyt.mx> References: <Doy3z5.K2o.0.raindrop.seaslug.org@raindrop.seaslug.org> <315AFF62.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: cibnor.cibnor.conacyt.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: : 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. Jordan, out of curiousity, what sorts of failures have you personally seen with 4mm DAT? Regards-- Larry Miller Administrador de Redes / Network Administrator Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, La Paz, BCS Mexico lmiller@cibnor.conacyt.mx