Topic: Tape Backup

[Lindsay Steele]

What sort of cheap Tape Backup systems are known to work well with e-smith. Will an IDE TR4 tape work well with something like taper ?? Does anyone else have any combinations that are known to work well ??. It also has to be a tape backup system, or something that allows backups will need to be stored offsite.

   Thanks,

       Lindsay

[Tim Litwiller]

here is an article that describes what you want http://e-smith.made-to-order.net/article.php3 I don't have links to all the parts that you need but this article lists them and you can usualy find rpms for them on http://rpmfind.net. You also might check e-smith.org to see if the e-smith-flexbackup rpm has a newer version since Charlies contrib stuff is over there now.

[Charlie Brady]

Tim Litwiller wrote:

> here is an article that describes what you want
> http://e-smith.made-to-order.net/article.php3

And here is the original, which I wrote [and which Tim has used without permission or attribution ].

http://www.e-smith.org/article.php3&mode=threaded&order=0

I can verify that an Iomega Ditto 3200 Travan 3 tape drive works fine, but I have not built an e-smith-flexbackup RPM to support non-SCSI tapes yet.

Regards

Charlie

[Gordon Rowell]

There are additional answers to this thread in the New User Forum.

Gordon