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From: wales@gidday.enet.dec.com (David Wales)
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Subject: Re: Disaster with a tape drive...HELP!!!
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Date: 11 Sep 89 01:56:04 GMT
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In article <517@uncmed.med.unc.edu>, theroo@pekin.med.unc.edu
           (Bron D. Skinner Ph.D.) writes...

}I would be interested in how others are handling this issue.  
}Are there reliable units?  Does reliability get better on higher capacity
}tape backup systems (60MB plus)?  Are there alternatives which are about
}equal in cost, but which yield better reliability?

I use an Archive 60MB 1/2 height internal drive and it is great.  It uses DC600
type tapes and achieves about 3.5-4MB/minute when backing up file by file and
about 5.5MB/min in image mode.  Retensioning is not mandatory but I usually do
an erase before the backup which takes care of retensioning anyway.  Don't give
up on tapes as it sure beats feeding floppies in every 30 seconds.

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