[wellylug] Tape Backup Units

[Klenner, Colin]

Jamie,
How much data are you looking at or any one backup cycle?

Do you want a complex cycle of tapes so as to recycle them on a structured
manner? Or more one-off ad-hoc backup solution?

You can probably get some good units through Trademe as these seem to come
up quite often ~$200-500 plus tapes.

If you can get away with it will you use just one OS or will you switch back
and forth between them? This can change the selection of backup software as
well for compatibility sake (if you want it).

Sorry for the questions - just clarifying.
Colin

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From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Jamie Dobbs
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 2:26 PM
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: [wellylug] Tape Backup Units


I'm thinking about putting some kind of tape backup unit into my PC to allow
mne to backup both Windows and Linux partitions/data. Can anyone recommend a
WELL PRICED tape backup unit that runs off the IDE interface (I have one IDE
connection free). I was kind of thinking that one of the Travan based units
might be best as  DAT and DCC seem quite expensive (both drives and media),
but I'm willing to be corrected.


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