Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hello, I am looking at the feasibility of various backup devices for use with Linux. It would prefereably work out of the box with Linux.
I have eliminated ZIP drives, they are ridiculously over-priced (at least in Holland) and 250 MB is not big enough. I have CD/RW and could use that I suppose but it's a bit of a fiddle. Dat would be ok, but the devices are expensive, although at tapes are cheap. DLT woud be out of my price range, and way over-kill.
Any other ideas or devices ? I have both spare SCSI and USB capacity on one of my networked systems. And parallel port capacity on all of them. I would rather not look at IDE devices (this is more to do with what I do with my systems than anything philosophical).
What capacity I hear you cry ! Say around 1gig+, compressed.
And don't suggest LS120 :)
-- Regards Cliff
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