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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!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!world!news From: dfisk@world.std.com (David Fisk) Subject: Re: Tape drive for 'dump' backup Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <DuGM9t.9I4@world.std.com> Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr Usenet Himself) Nntp-Posting-Host: world.std.com Organization: None X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 References: <4rom3i$g4q@decaxp.HARVARD.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 02:15:28 GMT Lines: 12 If you are going to be using a LOT of tapes, then a DAT drive may be cheaper in the long run because of the media costs. But... That being said, I recently picked up a Conner (now Seagate) TapeStor TSM4000R SCSI QIC MiniCart drive for less than half the price of a DAT. It holds 2G native on a QIC-3080XLF QIC Wide tape. I bought it primarily for my Win95 system but I do have FreeBSD installed for testing. I did a quick tar and it seemed to work fine. Under Win95 I did a full backup (with compression) and got about 38MB/sec with 1G of data. Dave