Re: I give up on tape backup

In article <vilain-7982ED.15321810052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Michael Vilain <vilain@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I'm a recovering sysadmin and old habits are hard to break.  I've used 
> Retrospect with tape since I bought a SuperMac clone some 10 years ago. 

> Prior to that I used floppies.  As disk sized have grown and my usage, I

> now top out a little under 80GB of "active data" that's backed up every 
> couple days with about 120GB I only backup quarterly.  8mm grew to 4mm 
> DAT until I spent $1700 for a VXA2 drive a couple years ago.  Those 
> tapes are about $60 each.  Now that the tape drive is starting to give 
> me problems (or else it's Retrospect), I'm also considering just getting

> a 2TB drive and using that for my backups.  It will be faster and a LOT 
> cheaper ($350 or so at Fry's).

You understand my position exactly.  I started with Dantz back in the 
Disk Fit days, gave them a few suggestions which they used, in fact, as 
well.  I like their work, I like tapes too, but the price for an AIT3 or 
better drive is too high for me to consider at this time.

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