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From: stevem@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Steve McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Backup devices (was: Re: VCR Backup)
Keywords: WangTek, Syquest, removable media
Message-ID: <2244@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 90 13:40:38 GMT
References: <1803@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <5362@milton.u.washington.edu> <13375@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <13375@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup) writes:
+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 :-).
+

Any controller that support SCSIdirect should be able to support a SCSI tape
drive.  I fully expect to use my Archive 2160S and my 2091 with my software
and Bru once I get 2.0.  I use my own software right as do many, many others
on this net.  People are using Wangtek, Archive, Exabyte, ... drives all over
the place.  I don't think you will get any guarantees from any one however
until 2.0 is official.



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