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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsreader.jvnc.net!lazlo From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas) Subject: Re: Rec. for tape backup BSD/WIN95 Message-ID: <Dr1FKA.5DL@tigger.jvnc.net> Sender: news@tigger.jvnc.net (Zee News Genie) Organization: University of the Virgin Islands X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 References: <4mlm73$avr@dracula.hybrid.com> Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 13:43:37 GMT Lines: 26 In article <4mlm73$avr@dracula.hybrid.com>, keng@hybrid.com wrote: >I would like to hear from people running FreeBSD and WIN95 on the >same machine, who have found a suitable tape backup system that >works on BOTH OSs. > >Seems to me a 150 meg tape drive is fine for FreeBSD, but with 800 >megs or so on the WIN95 side that is a bit impractical.... > >Any reccomendations or success stories greatly appreciated! > I use an HP "SureStore 2000" (nee JetStore). Since HP bought Colorado, the Colorado backup software for Win95 works with this drive and in fact it is distributed via FTP from HP for free. That takes care of the Win95 side (including long filenames). For the FreeBSD side this drive is seen as st0 and I use dump/restore and tar. All this assumes you have a compatible SCSI host adapter, I use an Adaptec 2940. This tape drive is a 2GB DDS (aka DAT) drive, and should have no trouble swallowing either the Win95 or FreeBSD slice. | John Lucas jlucas@uvi.edu | | Academic Computing NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.uvi.edu/jlucas.html |