Re: Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-05-12 Thread Greg Putrich
Hi Graham, Not sure about the first part, but the device is called a radiometer. http://radiometer.hobbytron.com/Radiometer.html http://science.howstuffworks.com/question239.htm Greg Graham Bentley said: Is there a way to create a hdd resore solution with set of boot floppies that

Re: Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-05-12 Thread Atom Powers
Graham Bentley said: Is there a way to create a hdd resore solution with set of boot floppies that will support my tape drive access the tape and restore the entire hard disc in case of disc failure disaster ? ie So I could install a new disc and be up and running without doing any

Re: Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-03-07 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:09:40PM -, Graham Bentley wrote: Description: Glass bulb, similar to light bulb but with narrow end flared at bootom so it standsup. Inside, a rotating wire device that has 4 squares of card like material attached, like vanes. One one side they are black

Re: Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-03-07 Thread DAve
Graham Bentley wrote: Is there a way to create a hdd resore solution with set of boot floppies that will support my tape drive access the tape and restore the entire hard disc in case of disc failure disaster ? ie So I could install a new disc and be up and running without doing any

Re: Tape backup solution? [OT]

2003-12-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 31), Eric F Crist said: I have a question that's slightly off-topic, but not. I install high-end surveillance equipment for CCTV and such. I have a rather large client in Minneapolis who's using Dedicated Micros digital video recorders. The particular model we're

Re: Tape backup using a OnStream SC-30

2003-06-04 Thread Jens Rehsack
On 6/4/2003 12:33 PM, Mark Pearce wrote: Hi Hi Mark, I am having trouble trying to backup data using an OnStream ADR drive. I have read the dump, sa, sr, tar man pages and have googled as well, but am still having no joy. I have the following results: dmesg: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4

Re: Tape backup using a OnStream SC-30

2003-06-04 Thread Jens Rehsack
On 6/4/2003 12:47 PM, Mark Pearce wrote: Hi Jens Hi Mark, Thanks for your reply. Do you have any idea what tape drives are best for the FreeBSD platform as I have no intention to changing my clients server to Linux. I know there are almost none listed on the hardware lists. At first:

Re: Tape Backup

2002-12-20 Thread Irwan Hadi
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:33:11AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: If your usage justifies the cost, you might want to consider DLT or LTO type drives. They handle the load with less failure and higher capacity and data rates. I'm using Sony AIT-2 and it works great. The benefit of using

Re: Tape Backup

2002-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:33:11AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: If your usage justifies the cost, you might want to consider DLT or LTO type drives. They handle the load with less failure and higher capacity and data rates. I'm using Sony AIT-2 and it works great. The benefit of

Re: Tape Backup

2002-12-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am running Freebsd 4.6 and my dds-2 tape backup drive just died on me. I am interested in moving up to a bigger capacity drive so does anyone have any recommendations? I am not interested in anything high end, this is just for my system at home. I was looking at the dds-3 drives, but

RE: Tape Backup

2002-12-16 Thread Brian McCann
I've never ran one on FreeBSD, but I've used several DDS-3 drives of all kinds of flavors. I've had some problems with some Seagate ones, but aside from that, I've had no problems. The only thing I'd keep in mind, and that I've experienced is that the DDS-3 tapes are not designed for heavy use.

Re: Tape Backup

2002-12-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
I've never ran one on FreeBSD, but I've used several DDS-3 drives of all kinds of flavors. I've had some problems with some Seagate ones, but aside from that, I've had no problems. The only thing I'd keep in mind, and that I've experienced is that the DDS-3 tapes are not designed for