Never underestimate the bandwidth of a SUV loaded with DLT tapes driving down the freeway... If the hard drives are located in the same facility as the data they are backing up, you have no recourse should the entire facility be lost. Tapes can easily be moved offsite for disaster recovery purposes. ~Matthew -----Original Message----- From: pinto [mailto:pinto45@aig.forthnet.gr] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:20 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] server 8.0 versus professional 9.1 On Tuesday 29 June 2004 08:06, John Andersen wrote:
Caviat: I have not yet run BRU on 9.1. (Altho I did run taper on 9.1 and played with the mt commands enough to know they are the same).
~ because, large HardDisks have come down in price, and, are, so much faster than TapeDrives . . . I wonder, have Tape-Drives lost much of their charm, for back-ups? -- best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________ -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com