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- From: Michael.Davis@f117.n207.z1.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Buying a tape drive: i ne
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- Date: 06 Nov 92 22:57:00
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- │From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber)
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- │Message-ID: 1992Nov1.213818.10707@sophia.smith.edu
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- │Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
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- │I am pondering the purchase of a tape drive for my 2000 with a 2091
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- │SCSI controller and AmiBack backup software. I'm basically ignorant
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- Hi John,
- I have a tape drive setup on my 3K and I am using AmiBack. I purchase a VIPER
- drive, this drive is of course SCSI and will use either 6150 (150 megs) or
- 6250 (250 megs) tapes. That makes it easy if you upgrade you drive.
- Installation was easy, I had a external case and installed it in that. The
- hardest part was decideing what unit number to set it at. The controller is
- unit 7 (normally all are), I had installed hard drives as units 6, 5, and 4.
- I decided to have the tape be unit 0. The next hard part was removing the
- termation resistors. Only the last item on a daisy chain should have them
- installed. On my 3K the internal drive has them and the external box as a
- termation plug installed on the daisy chain.
- How does it work? Great! There are no software to install as Ami-Back will
- use the drive direct. Setting up Ami-Back is very straight forward, just
- follow the prompts. I now backup my data a lot more often, once a month I
- backup each entire drive on a tape, and I keep two monthes of backups on
- hand. Each week I backup all new data from all the drives onto one tape and
- I make multiple backups to that tape. And when I feel the need I will backup
- all new data. It is so quick and easy, that I can not face the idea of having
- to do it to disks ever again.
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- Michael //Amiga
- Davis // Power
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