On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:39:38PM -0500, Furnish, Trever G wrote: > Thanks, all who responded, but I'm still looking for info on tape > drives.
I don't remember the previous thread (and looking in my outbox I don't think I posted to it either), so... You want to do backups, you want them to be reliable and portable for offsite storage. Have you considered that tape might not be the answer? Consider high capacity, cheap, hard disks in external enclosures with a Firewire interfaces that can be hot-plugged. Tape capacity is not keeping up with disks, and the rarified tape that is staying close is expensive (can you afford a backup tape drive too?) and the media is getting rolled really thin. And it is slow. A disk, in contrast, is instantly usable in that it can be mounted directly. That speed might be worth a *lot* in the case that you actually need to get back up after a catastrophic failure. And in the case of retrieving a few old files, disks are also easier and faster. Think about it. -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
