On Monday 07 November 2005 20:55, James Oltman wrote: > I am getting my hands on a slightly used DDS4 external SCSI tape drive. I > am also getting about 7 tapes. I have a SCSI card already. I would like to > back up my video files on my Myth BE. I am currently having one or more of > these three issues. I am using an ATI Radeon 7000 AGP card. I think the > drivers I have might be causing the system to lock up. I might have shoddy > RAM as well. But the most plausible explanation could be the severely under > powered PSU. It's only 380W for 3 120GB drives and one 80GB drive. I also > have a DVD burner running off it as well. In any case, my BE is not > recording shows anymore. I would like to start with a fresh Fedora Core 3 > install.(Primarily because I hear FC4 has some issues). What kind of > problems am I going to see adding a SCSI card to this setup? Is there any > easy way to install or user friendly software I can use to copy all my data > to these tapes? i figure that 7 x 40 is 280GBs. Much more than I currently > need but more than I have in available space on other HDDs. Any help would > be appreciated. Thanks! > > Jim > > BTW: > > Current Kernel is 2.6.10.1-776
just so you know, tape isn't a great backup medium, your better off buying a 300gig harddrive, copying everything over and then storing the harddrive in a safe place. Or even just burning everything to DVDR. Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
