Quoth Bill Campbell: [tape drive preferences]
> You might want to consider using external firewire hard drives. You can > buy 120gb units from CompUSA which handle USB2 and Firewire for about $220 > each. Given the cost of media for DLT the cost for a 120gb drive is > comparable to the number of tapes required to back up that much data (not > to mention the cost of the DLT drive itself), the data's much more > accessible on a mountable file system, and it's reasonable to use multiple > drives. Remember to keep backups off-site. I like this idea. Has the Linux support for FireWire become mature enough that using an external FireWire drive as a backup is viable? I'm supposing so, or you wouldn't have suggested it, but this is my day to ask obvious questions. Kurt -- "If you've done six impossible things before breakfast, why not round it off with dinner at Milliway's, the restaurant at the end of the universe?" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
