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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.conterra.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu!usenet From: Matthew White <mwhite@freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape drive for 'dump' backup Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:10:42 -0400 Organization: Freehold Lines: 21 Message-ID: <31E81EE2.41C67EA6@freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu> References: <4rom3i$g4q@decaxp.HARVARD.EDU> <DuGM9t.9I4@world.std.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) You can also get an Exabyte drive used for cheap. These are simple SCSI-1 devices that are built slightly tougher than your average brick. One $5 tape holds 2.3GB. I've seen 8200s used on the net for $250-$300. -Matt David Fisk wrote: > > If you are going to be using a LOT of tapes, then a DAT drive may > be cheaper in the long run because of the media costs. But... > > That being said, I recently picked up a Conner (now Seagate) TapeStor TSM4000R > SCSI QIC MiniCart drive for less than half the price of a DAT. It holds 2G > native on a QIC-3080XLF QIC Wide tape. I bought it primarily for my Win95 > system but I do have FreeBSD installed for testing. I did a quick tar and it > seemed to work fine. Under Win95 I did a full backup (with compression) and got > about 38MB/sec with 1G of data. > > Dave