On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:46, David Purton wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:33:25PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, David Purton wrote: > > > > > Our ancient tape drive died and we need to get a new backup system > > > happening. > > > > > > What are debian users recommendations for backups? > > > > > > We are a small business and back up about 15GB on a weekly basis, with > > > daily differentials inbetween. > > > > get a similar/identical tape drive ... so all your old archives > > still is readable ... and media is recyclable and usable > > This would be nice, but my brief reseach so far suggests that there is > not much around now that will write to HP Colorado 5GB tapes... > > We don't use tape for long term storage - we keep about a fortnights > worth of files on tape.
Used DLT drives with a 20/40GB capacity are cheap on Ebay, and all the big media manufactures make the tapes (CompacTape IV), since they are the native tapes on current 40/80GB drives. Our shop has used DLT drives for more than a decade, and have been impressed with their durability, speed, etc. Note, though, that whereas that 5GB Travan drive probably plugged into the floppy drive cable, all other drives is SCSI based. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Adventure is a sign of incompetence" Stephanson, great polar explorer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
