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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Backup devices (was: Re: VCR Backup)
Keywords: WangTek, Syquest, removable media
Message-ID: <13375@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 23 Jul 90 20:30:33 GMT
References: <1803@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <5362@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <5362@milton.u.washington.edu> dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson) writes:
>
>Please tell me I'm wrong, but I understand this conversation to be saying
>that there is _still_ no way to just buy a scsi tape drive and stick it 
>in your machine without having a xetec or gvp controller, and then you
>have to buy theirs.
>
>I find this _very_ disappointing becasue I was under the impression that
>when my A3000 gets here (ordered last week) I could just get a scsi tape
>drive and stick it in (or stick it in a shoebox) and _at least_ do 
>reliable image backups until there is a way to do reliable file by file
>backups.
>
>If you can be nice enough to tell me that I'm wrong and I can just buy 
>a tape drive, please do me the additional favor of recomending a drive
>and vendor to order the drive from.

	You should be able to do reliable backups to a scsi tape drive using
bru.  Bru does do file-by-file backups, not just image backups.

	Sorry, I can't recommend specific drives to you, given my position
(plus I've only used one :-).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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