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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 10/05/01 11:53
In article <2006071323214975249-peterh5322@rattlebraincomminch>,
peterh5322 <peterh5322@rattlebrain.comminch> wrote:
>On 2006-07-13 21:06:10 -0700, snorwood@redballoon.net (Scott Norwood) said:
>
>> Now that DLT drives are available cheaply on Ebay, there's no reason
>> not to have good backups. Actually, it's pretty impressive how
>> far backup technology has come in the past few years. The current
>> LTO-3 format that we are using at work now is so much better that
>> it can't even be compared to the crappy 4mm systems that were common
>> just five years ago.
>
>What DLT drive are you using?
>
>I, too, gave up on DDS, preferring to backup to an identical disk drive.
>If tape (DLT) now has the needed capacity, then perhaps it deserves a
>second look.
And such drives as the AIT drives have 500GB per tape. [They may
have the 1TB drives out now - I haven't looked lately].
Not cheap but a lot of fast storage.
Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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