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From: rcw@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Robert White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disaster with a tape drive...HELP!!!
Keywords: tape backup systems
Message-ID: <1889@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
Date: 10 Sep 89 05:48:08 GMT
References: <1989Aug31.104848.11605@cs.dal.ca> <3566@rtech.rtech.com> <517@uncmed.med.unc.edu>
Reply-To: rcw@scicom.UUCP (Robert White)
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>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 have used an internal Everex-60 tape backup unit for the past three
years with 100% reliability. It will backup a 20 megabyte disk in about
10 to 15 minutes, and the tapes do not have to be formated.
I paid about $600 for the unit three years ago.

Robert White