Re: tlug: <Q> Tape Drive

[gaijin@example.com (John Little)]

% 
% I am using Red Hat 4.2 as a file server and planning
% to incorporate a tape drive for back-up use. And
% I have browsed the supported tape drives but I am quite
% confused. I am wondering which tape drive is reliably
% use by the linux community.
% 

Navye,

   I use a 1/4" QIC SCSI drive (525MB capacity) for my machines at
   home, but I have used an 8mm 5GB drive on a SPARC Linux machine 
   in the office, too.

   What is your primary concern, daily backup of large amounts of
   data, ease of recovery, speed of backup? It might even be worth 
   looking into writeable CDs as a backup medium,rather than tape.


				-John-

Next TLUG meeting is Saturday Dec. 13, 1997  (possibly Nov. 13?)
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