I use a Seagate travan IDE tape drive running on an old linux box to back up my laptop over the network. Works fine. Yes, the tapes are expensive. So far, they've been reliable. I don't have any experience using amanda or any of the other backup packages. I use tar. Good luck.
> Hello all, > > I've already posted about this a few weeks ago. I recently lost a 60 GB > hard drive, so now, I'm really steering away from hard drives and going > to tape drives, when it's about backing up data. FYI, my server is a > laptop running debian, no SCSI, just USB. > > I've seen Travan drives from Seagate, they're USB 2.0. The unit is cheap > ($250) and tapes are pricey ($3.80/GB). Has anybody used this product ? > Is it good ? Anybody has tape drives for linux ? Would amanda do the job > for periodic backups ? Are there better alternatives ? > >Thanks everybody ! > > --Stéphane
