Date: 02 Jun 2000 09:17:17 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> To: "Hank Wethington" <bsd@info-logix.com> Cc: "BSD" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Tape backup recommendation Message-ID: <lf3dmwfciq.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> In-Reply-To: "Hank Wethington"'s message of "Fri, 2 Jun 2000 01:05:46 -0700" References: <KFEIIDCJNHBCGLAFNMJIMEMNCDAA.bsd@info-logix.com>
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On Fri, 2 Jun 2000 01:05:46 -0700, "Hank Wethington" <bsd@info-logix.com> said: Hank> Greetings, I'm looking to purchase a tape backup system for my Hank> BSD3.4 box. I'd like to be able to back up a 18 GB drive. I've Hank> looked at TRAVAN and at DAT. Besides the speeds should I be Hank> worried about anything? Hank> As price is a major concern, the Travan 20 GB SCSI drives look Hank> great, but has anyone had any issues using these in a BSD box? Hank> Both the Seagate and HP drives does not say that BSD is Hank> supported (but then again, most things that are don't say they Hank> are). Is anyone using these? Any other recommendations? I've got one of the Travan 4/8GB drives but when I found a 4xDDS2 changer I started using that instead. Mostly, the Travan media is *way* too expensive, like $30 for the 4/8GB, versus $5 for the equivalent DDS2. And after just a few uses my drive must have missed the end-of-tape mark on the Travan and unwound all the tape off one of the spools; I had to through it out; at $30 it this was rather annoying. You might look at AIT and DLT but they're still too expensive. Would overstock or refurb units be OK? I got a couple 4xDDS2 changers from www.ez-systems.com and really like them. Automating backups is *critical* IMHO because otherwise they won't get done. Amanda can operate jukes via FreeBSD's "chio" driver; way cool. Oh, make sure whatever drive you get is SCSI. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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