Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:09:38 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: Noor Dawod <noor@comrax.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011120120938.M76318@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <002f01c17162$7d190550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <OF7F945520.F850FFD8-ONC1256B09.007D8B2D@use.ch> <002f01c17162$7d190550$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Tuesday, 20 November 2001 at 2:27:09 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > On Monday, November 19, 2001 23:55, <FreeBSD@hm.homeip.net> wrote: >> Hi Noor, >> >> generally from my experience I can't recomment DAT as a backup media. They >> are cheap but also not very durable. I rather recommend DLT or LTO drives. >> >> The reason for this is simple my experience showed me, that a DAT media >> gets unreadable after a year of use, then you have to buy new ones, with >> DLTs or LTOs I really can say they last very much longer (I admit my >> experience with LTOs is only for 2 years now ;-). > > I've never had trouble with DAT drives, and I've been using them for backups for > years. I've been using DDS (so-called DAT) drives for years too, and I've had nothing but trouble with them. I still estimate the average life to be about 18 months. > I verify every backup (not sure if this is possible on FreeBSD--?). Of course it is. I do that too. > I rotate through a dozen tapes or so. If you keep the drive clean > and verify the tape content so that you know it is readable, it > works very well. The latest DAT drives can put at least 24 GB on > one cassette. 40 GB. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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