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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-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 suggestions??? Date: 10 Jul 1996 20:23:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4s13f4$avo@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ru18i$mll@mitzi.rsmas.miami.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 ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu (Ivan Lima) wrote: > I'm looking for a reliable, fast and affordable tape backup solution > for a FreeBSD box. Does anyone have any suggestions ? (The DAT and > EXABYTE drives I've seen are too expensive). You don't write about the required size. *Avoid* floppy tapes. They are ``crap by design''. If you don't have much money to spend, try to get some used stuff. An old Archive Viper 150 should not be very expensive these days, but is rock-solid technology which will most likely run flawlessly yet another five years. This drive (and the Wangtek ES5150) is available as either SCSI, or with a separate QIC-02 interface card. While the latter is not that fine as SCSI, i still think it's a much better choice than a floppy tape of any kind. (Note that you can also get extended length 250 MB cartridges for QIC-150 drives. Speaking in terms of the floppy tape vendors, this would make a ``500 MB'' solution, implying that your software would compress the data 1:2 before.) -- 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. ;-)