🚀 go-pugleaf

Thanks a lot for all who responded to my questions !
I think I start reading more news from now on ;-)

I got a lot of pointers now, but i think i get the general idea now.
BTW : in the mean time i found a book in my shelfs which is quiut good reading
for Linux backup issues. Why not think about your books first, then ask ... ;-)

Most probably i'll buy a HP DAT C1554, a DDS-3 drive.

Anyone has pro/con's for those  ?
Somewere i've read that DAT media's have a very short lifecycle, i.e. one can
write a DAT media only a dozen time ? I can't believe that, that would be a
major drawback !

regards,

Mark Brun

Marc SCHAEFER wrote:

>
> There are many possibilities. The one I use are:
>
>    - QIC-250 (SCSI big and old, slow, and not a lot: 250 MB)
>      However, I have a stock of them (a pile), they are very
>      reliable. I use that for incremental backups mostly.
>
>    - Exabyte 8mm 8200: quite reliable, but slow. I have a few
>      cartridges. 2.5 GB. SCSI.
>
>    - DAT: a lot of different options. At this time I have an old
>      HP DAT (upto 90m tapes, around 2 GB/tape).
>