I was going to make my plea simultaneously with telling all those of you who
missed it about our very interesting meeting last week. But life has caught
up with me again, and it is probably already too late to plead with someone
to help with a speaker for May.
But please, people. Many of you
On 21/04/17 15:55, Rob Malpass via Hampshire wrote:
Hi all
Is DAT still a viable backup medium if you want USB and to avoid
optical disks?
I’ve got about 8Tb to backup and for various reasons don’t fancy: LTO,
BluRay, Cloud or HDD (i.e. NAS). I know DAT’s quite old (and I might
even be f
On 21 April 2017 at 15:55, Rob Malpass via Hampshire <
hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Is DAT still a viable backup medium if you want USB and to avoid optical
disks?
>
> I’ve got about 8Tb to backup and for various reasons don’t fancy: LTO,
BluRay, Cloud or HDD (i.e. NAS). I
Hi,
We use DDS 4 DAT at work and it's proven reliable but it's not fast and the
tapes are starting to get harder to come by. You will also need cleaning tapes.
The drive will tell you when it needs cleaning. Don't use cleaning tapes
unnecessarily as they wear the heads out.
We're going to ditch
Hi all
Is DAT still a viable backup medium if you want USB and to avoid optical
disks?
I've got about 8Tb to backup and for various reasons don't fancy: LTO,
BluRay, Cloud or HDD (i.e. NAS). I know DAT's quite old (and I might even
be forced to use DAT160 because of cost) but if it'll do
