Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:36:47 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Christopher Farley" <chris@northernbrewer.com>, "Noor Dawod" <noor@comrax.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD Message-ID: <000e01c1760a$0d14ebf0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <KAENJBICBBKCLKPMMACLKECFCBAA.noor@comrax.com> <20011119151303.B7781@northernbrewer.com>
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I have always had excellent luck with Hewlett-Packard DAT drives. As long as you don't reuse tapes beyond their useful lives (whatever number of passes the manufacturer recommends, usually several hundred at least), and keep the drive clean per HP's instructions, it is very reliable. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Farley" <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: "Noor Dawod" <noor@comrax.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 22:13 Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD > Noor Dawod (noor@comrax.com) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I want to buy a SCSI tape backup (DAT) for our server. Can anyone recommend > > a good one? fast and reliable that works under FreeBSD. > > I think just about any SCSI tape drive will work under FreeBSD. > I've used a couple different types of SCSI drives (DAT, DLT) under > FreeBSD and found it to be utterly painless to set them up. > > > While we're at it, how do you back up to one of these tape drives? > > In believe FreeBSD recognizes a SCSI tape drive as /dev/nrsa0. > > Most of the tape backup programs (certainly dump, maybe tar and cpio) > use the correct device by default. > > The mt command (man mt) is also useful for manipulating the tape drive > (checking the status, positioning the tape to the right file, rewinding > or retensioning the tape, etc). > > -- > Christopher Farley > www.northernbrewer.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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