I have no experience of the 60Gb drives but I've been happily using an
Onstream IDE 30Gb model for the past 14 months with no trouble at all.
I've used the drive with SuSE 7.0 and 7.2 using a home written backup
script which makes use of tar as the backup program. On average I backup
about 4 Gb per night to the tapes. I keep 6 daily, 5 weekly and 12 monthly
tapes for my backup regime.
I have had to restore data from my tapes several times, once due to a HD
failure and on other occasions to retrieve archived data for users who
have accidentally deleted it from the disc drives.
Sean.
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Sean Akers: sean@akers-online.co.uk
Jeffrey Taylor