[ale] Good cheap tape drive? (was Re: [ale] Full filesystem backup to CD-R)

[John Wells]

I agree that backing to tape would be much easier in the long run.  I'm
trying to get in the habit of backing up (haven't been so disciplined
lately).

That said, can anyone recommend a good, *cheap* linux-friendly tape drive?

Thanks!

John




Joseph A Knapka said:
> I happened to have my message-list window set to a width that
> caused your subject: line to be abbreviated to
>
> Fu...ckup to CD-R
>
> :-}
>
> Anyhoo, IMO the whole "back up a giant HD to a slew of
> little media" is a losing game. This is as true now as
> it was in the days of 10MB HDs when all you had to
> back them up on was 320K floppies. You can't automate
> that kind of backup, so chances are it won't get
> done often enough; it will take forever; and you'll
> have to remortgage your house to pay for media. You'd
> be better off in the long, or even the medium run, to
> invest in something like a DLT drive. Alternatively,
> just slap another giant HD in there and use RAID.
>
> I only ever back up my CVS repository, which easily
> fits on a CDR. Everything else can be restored
> from 3rd-party sources if necessary.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Joe
>
> John Wells wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know of a good, relatively easy utility that allows the
>> backing up of filesystems or subsets to CD-R?  I'm looking for
>> something that won't take days to understand fully or hack to get
>> working.  I was taking a look at Mondo, but having some issues.
>>
>> Anything out there you've used successfully?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> John
>>
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