[lug] Backup media and programs opinions?

[Nate Duehr]

Agreed.  Expensive, but excellent drives.  Tapes are nearly
indestructible, and they really did use some advanced ideas in their
packet-writing techniques to the tape.  I used one of these for a while,
and it "just worked".  SCSI interface, relatively fast, and never had to
fiddle with anything to make it act just like any other well-behaved
Unix tape drive.

Nate, nate at natetech.com

On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 06:16, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Crawford Rainwater wrote:
> 
> > I am researching different forms of backup methods, both media and
> > utilities (e.g., Amanda for one) out there for Linux.  I am looking
> > for some $0.02 from others, more practical oriented if possible. For
> > reference, this will be used for backing up 20GB to 40GB drives at
> > this time.  DATs and DLTs come to mind.  SCSI interface most likely
> > too for those who are curious.
> 
> 	I would recommend looking in the VXA line of drives. They were
> originally made by Ecrix, but have since been absorbed back into
> Exabyte. I use them at home and work, and they are excellent drives, very
> reliable. The largest tape holds 33GB native, though the media is a little
> expensive.
> 	Recently though, they released a new drive, a VXA-2 (not real
> sure on the name) that stores up to 80GB native and apparently the media
> is much cheaper. 

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Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com