On Saturday 27 October 2001 1:02 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
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.
I'm still looking at backup options and my favourite is still the Onstream
30GB ADR tape (from Holland). The IDE drives work out-of-the-box with Linux
but not the SCSI drives (that's why I'm undecided). The DI30 is about £180 +
VAT (17.5%) here in the UK and the Fast (2Mb/s) version £220 plus VAT.
However, tapes are extra. About £30 each.
M
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Martin Webster