[PLUG] advice on buying a cheap DAT Drive

Sean Whitney sean at fork.com
Sun Jul 13 07:55:03 UTC 2003


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I've been using DDS units to backup for a while and haven't had any problems 
related to DDS.  I'm using afbackup for my backup program.  It supports 
client server architecture, multiple backups at the same time, and I can 
backup through a ssh tunnel which is pretty cool.

Sean

On Sunday 13 July 2003 01:29 am, Jon Ladwig wrote:
> 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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