[NTLUG:Discuss] Tape Drive Recommendation

[Jay Urish]

I am partial to DLT.
It too has been around a number of years and the drives are getting kinda 
cheap (check ebay)

I personally am afraid of those little DAT tapes.. The media is too thin 
and fragile. DLT to me is kinda like the diesel of tape drives.


At 03:24 PM 2/10/2004, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I have always used DDS4 tape drives in the past with good success and was 
>wondering if anyone had any experiences, good or bad, with any other tape 
>formats.  Speed does not matter that much (the backups will be run in the 
>middle of the night by a cron job), but cost and reliability are important 
>factors.  20GB is enough space for now (current backups are only ~5 GB 
>with bz2 compression) and should be for a while, but bigger is always 
>better ;)  One reason I have always stuck with DDS tape drives in the past 
>is that the protocol has been around for a long time and therefore tapes, 
>drivers, etc. are easy to find.   I don't want to get stuck with a tape 
>standard that is dropped in a year or two and be unable to find tapes.
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Preston
>
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Jay Urish       W5GM            Systems/Network Engineer
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