[PLUG] tape archive problem
Aaron Burt
aaron at bavariati.org
Wed Oct 17 23:36:54 UTC 2007
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:32:58PM -0700, RA Cowger wrote:
> I am trying to use a tape drive to archive some important files that took a
> lot of time to create and still take time to maintain. I use a flash drive
> at the moment and it works, I've had to restore the files from one crash
> already.
>
> I want to use the tape drive as an extra because I already have it and
> several tapes left over from WIN98 days.
Looks like that model holds less per tape than a CD-R. Which is for the
best, since it doesn't appear to be supported under Linux. (I suspect
most old Colorado drives are slow, noisy implementations of /dev/null.)
If you don't have a CD-RW drive, they can be had cheap at the Freegeek
store. I could even try to have one ready at the Clinic this Sunday.
> The machine is a Pentium 450MHz w/256Meg of RAM running Red Hat 8
Decent machine, a bit faster than my main laptop, but how do you get
security updates for a distro that old?
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