[PLUG] advice on buying a cheap DAT Drive

Jon Ladwig jon at vertex-networking.com
Sun Jul 13 01:30:02 UTC 2003


I know very little about tape back-up; just thought
it would be useful to learn a bit more. Maybe backup
/homes and /var/www/html. 

Any Linux gotcha's I should know about?

I'm hoping I can pick up an old internal 4mm
unit- DDS or DDS-1 or DDS-2. Does around $25 sound
reasonable for one of those? Brands to avoid?

I do have a older scsi controller card- not sure of
the pins though. I'll have to dig it out before I
actually buy anything. 

Also, are man tar and man gzip my friends here? Or is
there a good software pkg out there?


Thanks,
Jon





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