Hello Alvin,
Thanks for your response.
Please see my comments inline below.
Steve
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From: "Alvin Starr" <[email protected]>
To: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <[email protected]>; "GTALUG Talk"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP
PC;
Tape drives are hard to come by these days.
Have you thought about a USB drive for backup?
I do plan to use portable USB drives for backup on the new Linux PC.
I did consider getting the portable USB drives now, and using them for
backup on the existing Windows XP PC. However, I prefer not to mess
around with changing the backup method on the Windows XP PC, since I
plan to stop using it as soon as the new Linux PC is operational.
There are plenty of inexpensive used DDS-3 tape drives available e.g. on
eBay, and from other sources.
Or a NAS box.
There are several inexpensive 1 and 2 drive NAS enclosures that you
can
get to put on your local network.
As with the portable USB drive idea, I prefer not to complicate the
Windows XP setup, by attaching new devices.
<snip>
It may be worth looking into getting the drive fixed.
I believe that Memofix(http://www.memofix.com/) will repair tape
drives.
Thanks for the tip !! I see they are a Canadian firm, so no
border-crossing complications.
I will investigate further.
On 08/09/2016 09:35 AM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote:
Greetings To GTALUG Members,
A setback has occurred in my project to acquire a new Linux PC.
On the Windows XP PC that is going to be replaced by the new Linux
PC,
the DDS-3 DAT SCSI tape drive has died, that does backup duty for the
HDD. Died too soon by only a couple of months -- !@#$%^&*(!!
Since it could still take a few months for me to complete the
acquisition of and conversion to the new Linux PC, I am not going to
risk operating the Windows XP PC without regular HDD backup for so
long.
So, I need to source a replacement tape drive for the Windows XP PC,
before I can continue with acquisition of the new Linux PC.
A soon as I have a replacement tape drive operating on the Windows XP
PC, I will resume the Linux PC acquisition project, and complete the
revisions to
the specification of components, per advice from GTALUG members.
Regards,
Steve
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Steve Petrie, P.Eng.
ITS-ETO Consortium
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
(905) 847-3253
[email protected]
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