Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:40:51 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Aleksandar Simic <alex@frustum.clara.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Taravan tape drives Message-ID: <3905E6B3.D2327553@3-cities.com> References: <20000425174518.A595@frustum.clara.co.uk>
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Aleksandar Simic wrote: > > Hello, > > I would be interested in peoples experiences with $Subject. > > How well are they supported ? Which is the model that you would > recommend ? etc. Just remember that the real tapes are the DLT's. They were desinged to be more or less bullet proof. Travan drive's are much cheaper up front and you keep paying for each tape that you purchase. Everything with DLT is expensive. Dat drive's are more expensive than Travan's but the tapes are much cheaper. The DLT's seem to be the most reliable. I never had much luck with the QIC style of tapes, which the Travan's fall into. You could backup 40,000 files but many times only 39,995 would compare and they hadn't been modified during the backup process. That wasn't a backup in my book. I had a lot better luck with the DAT's. One of them got me during my battle with upgrading from 3.4-s to 4.0-s. Kent > > Thank you for your time, > > --Alex > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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