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Re: Backup

At 12:43 PM 7/30/01 -0400, Bill Troop wrote:
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>>HP has left the market to Seagate, which makes a 20GB Travan for about
>>$325. So I think that's what I'll get.
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>For what it's worth, non credo in tape. I've heard more disaster stories
>from people who tried to restore from tape backups than any other kind.

I'll trust tapes if I make redundant backups. I don't remember ever getting
an error message when I wanted to access an old tape. (I did have a tape
get unspooled a couple of times, but I opened them up and rethreaded them.)

It occurs to me that Egghead was selling an HP Pavillion, with 8GB hard
drive, for $260. It would be cheaper to buy a new computer and use it for a
backup than to buy a new tape drive.


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