Re: Backups! w tape?

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From: David Lesher
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 00:00

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alan@clark.net (Alan McConnell) writes:

>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>)

Buy a used QIC150 drive & plug it into your SCSI controller.
Przemek Klosowski posted places he'd bought 'em for ~$100.

Run gnu tar.

Tapes cost $5.00 or so at hamfests. 

Cheap, fast, reliable.

Avoid "ftape" Q40/80 hardware.

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