the dat tape saga continues!

osaddictosaddict London, UK
edited October 2006 in Science & Tech
Ok, I really don't like the tape drive I have to use- well to be honest it seems to be the software thats bad- but ive tried everything backup style and they all seem to have bugs for me!

However, something i would really like is something where I can view the 'status' of a tape- like how full it is etc, at a very basic level

it looks like something like datman might do it for me- anyone got any other suggestions?

http://www.datman.com/

cheers!

Comments

  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    anyone got any other suggestions?
    And how! Hard drive storage is so cheap! Ditch the tape, bury it with your phonograph and Betamax, and get a large capacity hard drive. Slap the drive in an external drive enclosure for USB 2.0 or Firewire. Use freeware Cobian backup software for full, incremental, or date-specific standalone backups. You can also set up Cobian to run scheduled, routine backups - full or incremental, local, or over a network. For added security, purchase two hard drives so that you have double backups, one set that can be stored 'off site.'

    Hard drive storage is down to just a few pennies a gigabyte.
  • deicistdeicist Manchester, UK
    edited October 2006
    Leonardo wrote:
    And how! Hard drive storage is so cheap! Ditch the tape, bury it with your phonograph and Betamax, and get a large capacity hard drive. Slap the drive in an external drive enclosure for USB 2.0 or Firewire. Use freeware Cobian backup software for full, incremental, or date-specific standalone backups. You can also set up Cobian to run scheduled, routine backups - full or incremental, local, or over a network. For added security, purchase two hard drives so that you have double backups, one set that can be stored 'off site.'

    Hard drive storage is down to just a few pennies a gigabyte.

    While that's sound advice for the home user, in the enterprise sector Tape is more efficient for backups. For example I have 4 tapes on a daily rotation, each tape holds 600GB. That's 28 tapes, each holding 600GB that I need to ship backwards and forwards from a secure site. Using removable hard drives for that sort of thing just isn't reasonable.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Not to mention HD's seem incredibly prone to just dying anyway so I'd never trust them as a backup media.
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