Quoting Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > Be wary of the Onstream units, at least the 30 gig unit, I had one years > ago, and Onstream was not interested in fixing the lockups. As well, > some google searching will show you just what people think of their > stuff. >
The early 30GB Onstream required special, proprietary drivers. The later ones worked much better on Linux because the standard drivers worked. > Also, be wary of the Traven drives, I've replaced some of warranty > replacements of warranty replacements. They're fine for about a year and > then break. > I have a Seagate STT20000A Travan drive that has been doing daily backups for four years. > Look into DDS-4 drives, I believe the drives are around 600 apiece, > and a cheap scsi card. Tapes are also MUCH cheaper, at about 10-15 dollars > apiece. You could also get a DDS-3 for something like 350ish, and tapes > are about 7. > People keep recommending this combination. I crunch the numbers and I'll have to keep it for over a decade before the cheaper media saves money. > I know the tapes are small, but DLT drives are horribly expensive. > In my experience, if I have to be present to change tapes, backups do not get done often enough. Amanda and it's rolling backups can spread a big hard drive across several tapes. It does a full backup of one piece and incrementals of the other pieces every run. > You could get an external enclosure(5.25"), and then a USB 2.0 to scsi > adapter.(usb 1.0 won't be able to keep up with the 2 meg a second datarate > of a dds at full stream) > > Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
