Re: OT Tape backup recomendations
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.
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