Sean, something for your LUG. (fwd)

[Sean]

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On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Adam wrote:

> On 14 Jul 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> >Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> writes:
> >
> >> Sounds like it might be an ok deal but I dont know tape drives.  I dont
> >> mean to knock it really but 20g ide drives are less than $99 and quite
> >> plentiful.. you could grab a couple for size or redundancy unless you
> >> needed a tape drive for dozens or hundreds of tapes like in a "Real Backup
> >> Plan" with incremental stuff and all.
> >
> >The nice thing about tapes is that crackers can't erase them when
> >they break into your system, because they're sitting in a box
> >across the office, with the write-protect tab set, rather than
> >being in the actual computer all the time.
> 
> That is a nice feature!  But how many times have you restored due to
> crackers?  Also I am pretty sure they sell an ide drive sled
> and you could remove it as long as you have unmounted it.  I've done this
> between work and home (without a sled, I fashionably slipped the hd into
> my pocket) and had two machines thinking they held the same drive happily
> as long as I only had it mounted in one computer at a time.  Also I think
> windows (not that it matters for us) has a checkbox for designating a HD
> as removable.  
>
compgeeks.com had sleds for doing that for right aobut 10 bucks last time
I checked.