[ale] Low-end tapedrives for SOHO environment

[Bjorn Dittmer-Roche]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 griffisb at bellsouth.net wrote:

> I didn't want to hijack the Bacula thread, but did want to discuss
> various options for tape backups for the small office/home office
> environment. Particularly for a charity (church) on a budget.
>
> I saw the discussions on good tape drive units, but know a church (or
> home user) would have problems justifying 1K or so. How do the IDE tape
> drives stack up as far as reliability? I saw that you can pick up a
> Seagate 10/20Gig IDE Tape Drive unit for $184 or so online. That is
> closer to my budget. Even saw them for less. Looks like tapes are in the
> $34 range.
>
> Are these suitable for smaller networks? I was thinking of home use,
> backing up my laptops to my Samba desktop, then doing a tape backup from
> the Samba server. I also REALLY liked the external harddrive solution,
> and that might work better for at a lower cost.

Ghost??

	bjorn