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by **Brian Showalt** » Thu, 26 Sep 1996 04:00:00

I've been using a Colorado 250 tape drive with ftape for a while to back up
a Linux server at the office, and a few months ago it started having serious
problems. Upgrading the kernel to 2.0.20 didn't fix these problems, and I'm
thinking that the drive itself may just be at the end of its rope. That's
fine with me - I've been wanting to move to a better backup system for a
while anyway.

What I'd like to do is get a SCSI DAT drive, and I'm asking for
recommendations for one that works well with Linux. The drive should have a
capacity of at least 1.3 GB, but my primary concern is that it be reliable
and capable of handling daily backups. I'd prefer to keep the total cost
under $1,000.

If you have a backup system you like, please e-mail me.
--
Brian R. Showalter

by **Paul Rub** » Thu, 26 Sep 1996 04:00:00

>What I'd like to do is get a SCSI DAT drive, and I'm asking for
>recommendations for one that works well with Linux. The drive should have a
>capacity of at least 1.3 GB, but my primary concern is that it be reliable
>and capable of handling daily backups. I'd prefer to keep the total cost
>under $1,000.

Any DAT drive made recently can handle 2 GB (90 meter) tapes. If
you're on the cheap, I see Archive/Conner drives on closeout at places
like CSC in the $300 range. If you want to get something nicer and
don't mind blowing most of that $1,000, you can get a new DDS-2 drive
like the HP C1533a (that's what I have). This is quite a fast
drive, so if you use one, you should have a fast PCI SCSI disk
and adapter to keep the drive streaming. This will both speed
up your backups and help reliability.

by **Jeffrey Thomps** » Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:00:00

If you want cheap, apparently a lot of people are using ditto 800 with
ftape successfully. Don't buy a Colorado T1000 (like I did) I haven't been
able to make it work yet.

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Tape drive recommendations?

Tape drive recommendations?

Tape drive recommendations?

Tape drive recommendations?