Re: Ecrix VXA Tape

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From: Mark Landin
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:00

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On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:50:59 +0000, nobody <dont@bugme.com> wrote:

>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.

Excellent. Thanks for the information. Keep us posted, ok?

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