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- From: slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley)
- Subject: advice on DAT drives
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- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 09:09:12 GMT
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- I have decided that the only way I will back up properly is to buy a tape
- drive (for my SVR4 486) that can do backups unattended. Therefore I have
- decided to buy a DAT drive. My main reason for choosing DAT is that they
- are big enough (ie >330MB) for me not to have to swap tapes so I can run
- the backup overnight.
-
- I know very little about tape drives so could someone help me with a bit
- of advice;
-
- 1) bearing in mind that my main criterion is tape size, is my
- choice of DAT sensible?
-
- 2) will any DAT drive work on my SVR4 486 system (in theory)?
-
- 3) am I likely to be able to swap tapes with other users who have
- DAT and restore them on my machine?
-
- 4) what drives are out there that are cheap but work? (BTW I
- shall probably be buying from the US as prices are much lower
- so a US supplier would be fine.)
-
- 5) Will I necessarily need a SCSI interface for a DAT drive?
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
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- Simon Langley (preferred) slangley@constant.demon.co.uk
- Hampstead, London slangley@cix.compulink.co.uk
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