Ecrix VXA Tape

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From: nobody
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 00:00

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Someone had posted a message asking for hands-on experience with Ecrix's
VXA tape product.

I have the external product.  I am very happy with it.  I'm currently
running it on a RedHat 5.2 linux server with an Adaptec 2940 SCSi card.

I had to replace a Sony external 4mm DAT drive whose electronics finally
gave up the ghost after about a year of service. Pfah.

We use custom shell scripts with tar and afio to back up about 25 gigs
of data daily.  I had to do nothing except swap drives; no code changes!
It takes this drive about 4 hours to do our backups over a medium-busy
10baseT ethernet segment.

The unit itself is very rugged, and only needs to be cleaned with a tape
cleaning kit about once a month, for the duty cycle we put it through.

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Subject: Ecrix VXA Tape
Date: 1999/09/27
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