What tape drive would you recommend?

[Tony Hammitt]

Yet another vote for DAT.  I've had the same 2GB 4mm drive since 1994.
It works great in either Linux or Mac OS and I've never had a single
problem restoring the data.  Cleaning tapes are relatively cheap
so I use one after _every_ use of the drive and otherwise leave the
drive turned off (it's external).

I now have a HEPA filterer running inside my computer case, so I
don't have much dust, but before the drive was just sitting on the
desktop.  I just wish it was higher capacity or had native
compression...

See ya Wednesday,

Tony

Bradley Miller wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a tape drive to do backups on my Linux box for it and my
> network.  What drive would you recommend?  I'm just going to be backing up
> the data -- if anything blows chunks it'll get restarted from scratch.
> 
> -- Bradley Miller
>