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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: ast0: TAPE <OnStream DI-30>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.1.4.0.20010201213224.02e8e2e0@marble.sentex.ca> from Mike Tancsa at "Feb 1, 2001 09:41:29 pm"
To: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 09:08:25 +0100 (CET)
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It seems Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >tar cvbf 64 /dev/rast0 bla bla....
> 
> Thanks, yes it does work with 64, the one multiple I did not try.

why is it always that way :)

> >I have a drive here that onstream sent me back when with docs, but to be
> >brutally honest the drive and especially the firmaware sucks..
> 
> Yes, I figure it was a "cheap" drive in every sense.  I was hoping that it 
> could act as a sort of backup to a backup.  For my important servers, we 
> have dat drives, and for others where the situation makes sense, we use 
> rsync with ssh to dump the data onto big cheap IDE drives on another 
> server.  I was looking for a way to periodically backup these IDE drives 
> and was hoping the Onstream drives would do the trick. We have had way too 
> many bad travan tapes so we dont want to go with them. I thought I would 
> give the onstream a try to see how it did.

Well, as I said, supporting it is not impossible, its just "different"
from the way most *ix drivers like things. However if this is important
to you or somebody else, I could be persuaded into looking at this...

-Søren


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