[ILUG] Re: tape drives

[Colin Whittaker]

Vincent Cunniffe stated the following on Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:02:05PM +0000 :
> I'm considering getting a tape drive to backup stuff from my
> Linux server, which is reliable as hell but does have about 20 
> gig of stuff on it that's not currently backed up :-/ [1]
> 
> So, any recommendations as to : 
> 
> IDE vs SCSI
> Brands?
> Technologies to get/avoid?
> Driver availability under Linux?

HP scsi dat drive, get upto 24 gigs compressed onto a dds3 tape
the new dds4drives are supposed to do 40 compressed.

HP drives seem to be pretty reliable.

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