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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsreader.jvnc.net!lazlo From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas) Subject: Re: Tape drive for 'dump' backup Message-ID: <DuC0n0.9u0@tigger.jvnc.net> Sender: news@tigger.jvnc.net (Zee News Genie) Organization: University of the Virgin Islands X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 References: <4rom3i$g4q@decaxp.HARVARD.EDU> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:46:13 GMT Lines: 20 In article <4rom3i$g4q@decaxp.HARVARD.EDU>, prihodko@fas.harvard.edu (Andrew Prihodko) wrote: >Hi! > >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? > I have been using HP "SureStore" DDS (DAT) drives. The model 2000 holds 2GB and the model 6000 holds 4-16GB (4 w/o HW compression, up to 16GB w/ hw compression). I recently had a 2GB Seagate Barracuda "melt down" and restoration went without a hitch from level 0 dump tapes on a HP SureStore 2000 tape drive (FreeBSD v2.1.0-RELEASE). | John Lucas jlucas@uvi.edu | | Academic Computing NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.uvi.edu/jlucas.html |