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From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas)
Subject: Re: Tape drive for 'dump' backup
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:46:13 GMT
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In article <4rom3i$g4q@decaxp.HARVARD.EDU>, prihodko@fas.harvard.edu (Andrew Prihodko) 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 have been using HP "SureStore" DDS (DAT) drives. The model 2000 holds 2GB 
and the model 6000 holds 4-16GB (4 w/o HW compression, up to 16GB w/ hw 
compression). I recently had a 2GB Seagate Barracuda "melt down" and 
restoration went without a hitch from level 0 dump tapes on a HP SureStore 
2000 tape drive (FreeBSD v2.1.0-RELEASE).


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