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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.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Tape Backup Options Message-ID: <DrGyyH.4vK.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <4n5l94$rqq@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <4nb2d0$20d@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4nct2b$9c5@piglet.cc.utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 23:08:40 GMT Lines: 16 In article <4nct2b$9c5@piglet.cc.utexas.edu> nichols@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Stewart Nichols) writes: >You should be wary of old drives like the TK50, however. Parts >are hard to get... I'd also be wary of any backup medium where I didn't know someone else with the same thing. You want to be sure that your drive isn't the only one that can read the tapes (perhaps because of head misalignment): if it breaks down even if you repair it you may not be able to read your data. -- Richard -- How to have fun on Usenet, #1: Post a message to alt.sex saying "please take me off the Cindi Crawford nude pix mailing list, it's filling up my mailbox". Be sure to set followups to include misc.test and sci.aquaria.