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Title: Tape Backups
Post by: techlord84 on November 16, 2005, 08:47:23 PM

Greetings,

I have installed SME 6.0.x and have really enjoyed it. My question is that the manual states that the following tape drives have been tested and work on this system:

Seagate STT20000A
Seagate STT32000A

Have any of you installed and tested any other drives for this platform?? I need a tape drive that supports more then the 20GB that these 2 do. I prefer an IDE tape drive.

Thanks in advance.

Title: Tape Backups
Post by: DanB35 on November 17, 2005, 02:09:54 AM

It's not an IDE tape, but I'm using a DLT7000 drive with Arkeia Lite backup software.  Once I read up on some of its terminology, it wasn't a problem to get it set up with a scheduled backup via the Java UI.

Title: Tape Backups
Post by: techlord84 on November 17, 2005, 06:03:46 PM

Due to the fact that I am a huge newbie with this, I ma looking for something that will run out of the box with this system.

Thanks.

Title: Tape Backups
Post by: ReetP on November 21, 2005, 12:11:10 PM

I got one of these :

FREECOM    TapeWare AIT 460i 40-104GB

Works with existing flexbackup or you can use the supplied Tapeware.

IDE and works straight out of the box. (I had a small issue with the system picking it up because of the CD ROM drive but I don't think that's typical)

HTH
John

Title: Tape Backups
Post by: techlord84 on November 21, 2005, 08:32:30 PM

Quote from: "ReetP"

I got one of these :

FREECOM    TapeWare AIT 460i 40-104GB

Works with existing flexbackup or you can use the supplied Tapeware.

IDE and works straight out of the box. (I had a small issue with the system picking it up because of the CD ROM drive but I don't think that's typical)

HTH
John

AWESOME!!  Thank you for the info.