Re: Need recommendation for tape drive for new G4

[Brendan J Simon <brendan.simon@bigpond.com>]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the quick reply :)

Joe Phillips wrote:

> 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.
Any experience with the Exabyte Mamaoth ??

> > Are these supported by linux?
> >    
> yes.
I found the following site with info on tape drives and those 
"certified" to work with linux ;-)

http://www.linuxtapecert.org/
http://www.linuxtapecert.org/drives.php

> > 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.
Nice to know :)

Thanks again,
Brendan Simon.

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