Re: [TUHS] Irwin 285

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:07:07 +0300 Sergey Lapin <slapinid(a)gmail.com> wrote: If you really want tape backup: Get a DLT drive. This is the most reliable tape technology I came across. Next to it are the big QIC drives that use DC6xxx or DC9xxx media. (Don't confuse this with the MiniQIC stuff that was used for floppy streamers.) This would be a proper backup for an old Unix box. (DC600 tapes where a common distribution media for Unix software in the pre-CDROM era.) Avoid helical scan like DAT or Exabyte 8 mm. Hmmm. Well. 9-track tape is even more reliable then DLT. But how much data do you get on a 2400' tape at 6250 bpi? (Answer left to the reader as an exercise. ;-) ) Or, as Jason mentioned: Consider disk backup on at least two redundant disks. (Does not need to be RAID. Just copy all data to two indepentent disks.) Store at least one backup off site... Forget CD-R and DVD-R. -- tschüß, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/ _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs