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From: gengenba%marvin.fmi.uni-passau.de@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Michael Gengenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Need advice on streamer tapes
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 11 Jul 89 13:53:08 GMT
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we want to switch the backup of our Suns to the new streamer tapes, 
which handle up to 2 GB of data. We have offers from
   GIGATAPE (with DAT-tape)
   EXABYTE (with 8mm video-tape)
As we do not know much about this technology, we have a couple of questions:

   - Is the helical-scan-technology reliable?
   - Does the driver support standard UNIX character-devices?
   - Can you backup and restore single files or only complete disks?
   - Which device can you recommend?
   - How reliable is the tape media (it is pretty small :-)
   - Which error correction (ECC or FEC) is better?

Please answer by mail and we will summarize.

Thank you in advance.

   Michael

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