How much is this thing? Just so everyone knows, I bought an OnStream 30GB for like $240 or something. Works great, and is very quiet.
Regards, Dustin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Chopin Cusachs > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 8:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [brluglist] Backup Tape Drive > > > I've had better experiences with the little Ditto tape drive, > though it can't > go beyond 1 GB compressed. Parallel port is slow, but I don't mind a > three hour backup if it goes while I am in bed sleeping. I can > also use it > for the other computers around here, especially if I can make it go under > Linux. Also have a parallel port 100 Mb ZIP drive, as well as internal > ones in two boxes here. I like the Norton-Iomega recovery system. > > One major problem with Windows systems is that a really useful backup > must be able to run under DOS to restore a system when Windows can't > boot. > > Hadn't thought of getting two, but may do that. > > Maybe sometime when we are short a program we could get someone to > talk about rescue packages that boot from floppy, set up a RAM disk, > and run tools from that. SPBLinux comes to mind as a good example, > but the diskette produced by Windows98SE does so also. That's it, > OS on diskette for troubleshooting and recovery -- for title. > > Choppy > > At 07:31 AM 10/31/01 -0600, you wrote: > >Buy a cheap tape drive and that's what you'll get. Several years ago I > >bought a Ditto 2Gig tape backup and that's was the biggest piece of junk > >there ever was. I had to RMA it and get another and it was junk > too. After > >looking at mailing lists for that product I found out that a lot of other > >people thought the same thing. I know I'll never buy another > Ditto product > >again. Guaranteed. Just my $0.02. Jeff > > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
