My tape drive makes back its cost...

[basher584]

If I remeber correctly the Onstream marketing stuff all said that the
bit Error was 10^15 on DDS and 10^19 on Onstream and DLT.  And that
onstream was better than DLT becuase it doesn't pull the tape over the
head like DLT does.  Onstream doesn't support Stackers though.. (Not a
big concern for me.. :)

I'd definatly like to know someone that has actually used it (and others

drives to compare against..)

The VXA/66GB tape drive definatly looks interesting.. but that is quite
expensive and I only have about 10GB worth of data and 22-28GB worth of
drive space.


Ben [Noggle]

Ben Pfaff wrote:

> 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.
> --
> "Implementation details are beyond the scope of the Java virtual
>  machine specification.  One should not assume that every virtual
>  machine implementation contains a giant squid."
> --"Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java"