I have quite a bit of sgi gear and have been moving quite a bit of data from a linux machine to my sgi gear via tape recently. dat dds4 and dat 72 drives work good and the tapes are easy to come by. i have many dell branded dat drives that work without any special configuration. for larger capacity tapes i use a dell dlt drive. you have to make some tweaks to a file to make the drive use its full capacity but it works well too.
i trust dlt tapes over dat tapes. i do not make multiple backups to the same tape. the tapes degrade with use. i make a backup. store the tape, and only use that tape for future restore operations. so i would reccomend dlt drives if you can get a compatible drive and a box of new tapes at a good price. On Jul 23, 2017 8:51 PM, "Henry Bond via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: Hi Gang, I have need to make backups, and if you are going to do something, do it the proper way. Feel like I'm preaching to the choir here mind. My issue is finding tape to fit any drive I might buy or choosing an appropriate tape library device which has tape available to purchase with relative ease. Any pointers, suggestions or anecdotes as always is most appreciated. -H
