On Tuesday 09 July 2002 09:26 pm, you wrote: > Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base > tape drive and use it for Mandrake? Only because they are ugly, unreliable and smell bad.
If you overrule that advice -- Buy two, make sure the carts interchange, and verify the backups by loading them on a second machine. I used them for years on an old RedHat box. Got them to work fairly well by twidling parameters. It felt good to look at the carts on the shelf, but... I keep an old Debian box around for no other purpose than backing up other servers. It has a CDRW so I can archive things in pieces. It has saved my ass many times. Not once in 30 some years of computing has a tape been so kind. One of these days DVD-R media will be cheap. In the meantime, I keep carving the world into 650MB pieces. Jim Tarvid
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