On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:54:09 +0000 John Callan wrote: >LTO >AIT >DAT
They are all good tape storage systems, the more you spend the quicker they get but I use the (low end) DDS3 & DDS4 systems which are available secondhand at good prices. I've found these to be very reliable indeed and the backups just run every night automatically onto alternating tape sets. As others have said they are very good for restoring entire volumes and using incremental backups can also restore the volumes as they were at an earlier time. I find them really great for bacon saving too - when I downsize a file & save it over the original (not so rare an occurrence here...) I can pop a recent tape in & get back the original file in a couple of minutes. The other big plus is that you can have your entire system & archive on a few tapes and leave copies off site for security. And I have a Sony DS3 going cheap at the moment (off list please). David Hoffman __________________________________________________________ David Hoffman Photo Library <http://www.hoffmanphotos.com> phone +44 (0)20 8981 5041 fax +44 (0)20 8980 2041 =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
