[lug] Backup system

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 04:51:16PM -0600, KELLEY SCOTT T wrote:
>Anyone have any advice on a reliable and inexpensive backup system (tape
>drive perhaps)? I plan to do monthly or quarterly backups on a 30GB
>system but I'm not sure what to buy for the job.

I'm a fan of the helical-scan media drives like DDS (DAT) and
AIT.  DDS has native capacity of 2GB, 12GB, and 20GB, and
AIT has capacities of 25 and 50 I believe.  I've found DDS and AIT
to be much more reliable than DLT.  We seemed to have a LOT of media
failures on DLT.

Sean
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