Re: HP DAT drives
pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu (Ben Pfaff) writes:
> Does anyone out there have experience with Hewlett-Packard SCSI DAT
> drives, specifically the 12/24 GB models? I'm thinking about getting
> a backup system for my computer (which has 12 GB of HDDs), and this
> seems to be the best deal out there. Do they cooperate nicely with
> other devices (HDDs) on a SCSI bus? Does `dump' work okay with them?
> How loud is one of them; would it wake up me or my roommate when it
> kicks in for a backup at 3:00 a.m.?
DAT drives make very little noise if you keep the data streaming to
them as fast as they can handle it. If you don't they may make
clicking noises every now and then.
I'd highly recommend you look into amanda. I use it here, and as long
as you're willing to spring for more tapes than you probably
originally intended, it does a wonderful job. I also recommend
turning off the drive's hardware compression and letting amanda handle
it with gzip (unless CPU time is a big deal).
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