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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape drive for 'dump' backup Date: 8 Jul 1996 22:24:57 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4rs1rp$1eu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4rom3i$g4q@decaxp.harvard.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E prihodko@fas.harvard.edu (Andrew Prihodko) wrote: > I am running a WWW site on a Dell Pentium PC under 2.1R. For backup > purposes, I need to buy a tape drive that preferably could store the > entire filesystem which has 1.2G of data (several tapes is fine > too.) Does anyone know of the best tape drive in terms of both > capacity and ease of installation? No such thing like ``the best foobar'', but i'm rather happy with my Tandberg TDC4222. It's a 2.5 Gig QIC drive, it can work with everything from 150 MB to 2.5 GB QIC cartridges, even with hardware compression for the 2.5G parts. It's in the same price region as a DAT drive, but many people consider helical drives (DAT, 8 mm video Exabyte) a poor backup solution. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)