[1673] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: SCSI or ftape?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen E. Shipman)
Wed Apr 2 18:19:32 1997
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 18:00:03 -0500 (EST)
From: "Stephen E. Shipman" <seshipma@wixer.syrinx.org>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970402010709.161U-100000@inorganic5.fdt.net>
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Dave Wreski wrote:
--snip--
> > Should I get the scsi drive, or a simple 3.2 gig travan drive?
>
> I'd go SCSI...though for 50mb a day, the conveniences of a SCSI ZIP drive
> might be nice. Of course that doesn't leave too much room for growth or
> full system backups. A DDS DAT could probably back up (and verify) their
> 50mb in about 5 minutes.
I concurr, and would recommend any of HP's DAT drives for the job. I've
used everything from their (ancient) full-height 1.3GB DAT to their 4/8GB
DDS2 DAT and been pleased with all of them. Having the backup room to do
full backups whenever time permits is a very cheap `luxury' when you have
to restore from a disk crash...
- Stephen Shipman
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