On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 21:34, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> 3) Exabyte Ecrix 33/66 Internal Tape Drive.
I have 3 of these myself and a number in the field with clients in daily
use.
> Are these supported by linux?
yes.
> Is anyone using them and how do they rate?
We're very happy with them. I feel they're the best deal for the money.
> Any other recommendations for tape drives to be used with Debian
> GNU/Linux???
I've used DAT/DDS with Linux and Solaris. I prefer the VXA Ecrix
units. I found DDS to be unreliable but have had few problems with VXA.
> This is for a small company and the quality of the backups is extremely
> important, so I'm not after cheap and nasty.
All of our VXA drives are installed at small companies, most running
Linux.
Not only do they reliably backup daily but we have never had a failed
restore.
-joe
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