My tape drive makes back its cost...

[Ben Pfaff]

basher584 <basher584@usol.com> writes:

[...regarding tape drives...]

> What type do you have?

Sony SDT-9000.  Takes DDS-3 12 GB tapes.

> I have been looking into getting one sinced I accidently wiped
> out my partitions when one of my HD crashed..The Onstreams seem
> very nice..

They're cheap, at least.  I don't know how reliable they are.

> What backup program do you use? tar, cpio, BRU, ARKIEA?

A tar-based hack of my own along with dds2index/dds2tar to make
file retrieval quick and easy.
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