dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > please be aware of tape drive limitations and dont try to rotate > tapes indefinitely. you should only rotate tapes a few times if you > intend on using them for long term archival. you really have a lot > of options and you can determin them by the size of your backups. > if your backups are under 72GB then DAT72 is the obvious choice > because it is common, proven, and the tapes are inexpensive and the > drives are not to bad($300-$400)
> if you need more you can get LTO drives which are twice as much > money for the drive, $35 for the tape, and hold 400GB uncompressed. > somewhere in the middle is the VXA-2 drives though higher end VXA-2 > drives can match LTO drives what is your budget? how large are your > backups? consider that using a removable hard disk might be a > better option for you. you can put a drive in a hot-swap tray or > even in a USB2 enclosure and get a few big 500+GB drives. benefits > are MUCH MUCH faster backups, MUCH faster restores, nearly infinite > reuse or rotation or disks, variable capacity so you can get 120GB > drives now and then when your data grows you can just get bigger > drives and keep the other drives around for long term archival. > > > On Dec 28, 2007 6:56 PM, Marc D Ronell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need suggestions for tape drive > hardware/cartridges for home server backup. Approximately 40 > Gigs of data. I just tried to upgrade my DDS4 tape drive for > server backup to a DAT 72 (DDS5). I was told by both the > sales people and the manufacturer that the new DAT 72 could > read my old DDS4 tapes. But I tried two drives and both > irretrievably jammed and needed to be sent back with my test > tapes stuck fast in the mechanisms. > Is there a tape hardware platform which is inexpensive enough > to use at home and also contains a good upgrade path? > Thanks, > Marc > -- I think perhaps I wasn't clear in my original post. I am seeking an alternative to DAT 72. Clearly, my tests with the hardware show that some versions which claim to be able to read DDS4 tapes can not. What are the best hardware alternatives for tape backup of < 72G of data instead of DAT 72. Right now, I am not sure DAT 72 is reliable. Thanks, Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
