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Title: Tape drives
Post by: Dan Elkins on February 02, 2001, 05:51:28 AM

I'm looking for a good 20GB (+ or -) SCSI tape drive for my server.  Does anyone have any recommendations?

Dan Elkins

Title: Re: Tape drives
Post by: Darrell May on February 02, 2001, 08:59:21 AM

Dan Elkins wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a good 20GB (+ or -) SCSI tape drive for my
> server.  Does anyone have any recommendations?
>
> Dan Elkins

Seagate and HP have excellent low-cost 20GB Travan TR5 scsi tape drives as well as excellent 12/24GB 4mm DAT drives.  And don't forget that you can use an even lower cost Seagate or HP 20GB IDE Travan TR5 if you choose.

Regards,

Darrell

Title: Re: Tape drives
Post by: Mike Stoddart on February 03, 2001, 04:52:47 AM

I presume the IDE tapes are internal? Are there any cheap external tape devices?

Also, how will the inclusion of webmail and MySQL affect the current backup facilities? I need to backup my machine, but I dont know if there is a single product or means that will do the job - ie. total backup including data, files, emails and database contents.

Thanks

Title: Re: Tape drives
Post by: Darrell May on February 04, 2001, 10:12:48 AM

Mike Stoddart wrote:
>
> I presume the IDE tapes are internal? Are there any cheap
> external tape devices?
>
> Also, how will the inclusion of webmail and MySQL affect the
> current backup facilities? I need to backup my machine, but I
> dont know if there is a single product or means that will do
> the job - ie. total backup including data, files, emails and
> database contents.
>
> Thanks

Typically external tape drives are scsi but with the right hardware, and a little ingenuity, any internal drive, either ide or scsi may be converted to an external drive rather easily.  e-smith 4.1 has a superb built-in backup facility using 'flexbackup' to perform a complete scheduled backup nightly.

Regards,

Darrell