Re: recommend a tape backup solution please

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From: Steve Snyder
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:22

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In <3k8t2p$egr@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (Tim Cutts) writes:
>I would seriously recommend going for SCSI, rather than a parallel
>solution.  The main reason?  Your tape drive will be useable on any
>other machine that supports SCSI in the future as well!

The orginal poster didn't say what kind of machine he had, but on the basis
of his stated desire for parallel port backup it's likely he's got a notebook
computer.

The throughput of parallel port-based tape drives leaves something to be
desired, but it's still a *lot* fast than backing up to a stack of floppies.

FYI, On my notebook I'm using BackMaster /w a Conner PP tape drive.  It works
very well.

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