Re: Backups! w tape?

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From: David La Croix
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 00:00

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Alan McConnell (alan@clark.net) wrote:
: A friend recently told me I should "back up my system".  I got him
: to first spell the word, then he explained the concept, and now I'm
: sold on the idea that this is something I should do<g>.  So I'm
: looking for advice on tape drives and tapes; I want to know what
: works and what is cheap, also whether a tape-drive in a bay, or
: external, thru /dev/lp0, is better(that last clause is faulty, but
: since I'm using vi I'll let it go<g>)

Best performance for backups is done through SCSI tape drives, There may be
some support for IDE tape drives, but I'm not sure...  

Parallel tape drives are something to avoid, since they are not/will not be
supported.

As far as tape drives, it all depends on how often, and how much you want to
back up at a time.  Some people are buyng the Iomega ZIP drives to use as a
backup (100Mb cartridge disk drive).

--
dlacroix@acm.vt.edu
dlacroix@vt.edu

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