I have no experience with DAT72; I do have some experience with DDS4 and quite a bit of experience with older 4mm-format (DDS) tapes. I personally like the VXA series of tapes; or if you can afford it, AIT. Based on anecdotal evidence of myself and some others, the 8mm-format drives seem more reliable than the 4mm-format drives.
They're none of them trouble-free; I've had tape drives of every description go bad on me. The benefits I see from tape are: - no need to mount/dismount the media - much more shock-resistant than disk, which is good in a removable storage medium Unfortunately tape is now terribly expensive and slow compared to disk; and if you can stand the finickyness of it, a backup to disk (say a script that quiesces the source disk, copies it via dump or dd_rescue to a removable disk, then unmounts the removable disk and restarts services on the source) may be the best way to go. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
