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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!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape drive for 'dump' backup Date: 8 Jul 1996 18:20:37 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4rrg15$g7@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4rom3i$g4q@decaxp.HARVARD.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Andrew Prihodko (prihodko@fas.harvard.edu) wrote: : Hi! : I am running a WWW site on a Dell Pentium PC under 2.1R. For backup purposes, : I need to buy a tape drive that preferably could store the entire filesystem : which has 1.2G of data (several tapes is fine too.) Does anyone know of the : best tape drive in terms of both capacity and ease of installation? I use a 4/8Gb DAT. It cost #700 two years ago. I think it goes for about #650 now. It stores all my data on one tape, is easy to install (it's SCSI - all SCSI is easy to install), it's also external. If this is more than your budget, I would still suggest getting SCSI. Also, buy something that is at least twice the size of your hard disk. This makes it (a bit) future proof. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....