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From: lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Network Backup / Exabyte drives
Message-ID: <1315@radius.com>
Date: 30 Aug 90 15:53:42 GMT
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mlwiese@eagle.mit.edu (Mike Wiese) writes:

>"DAT is the way to go."
>Dantz would not comment on relative reliablilty of those three 
>manufacturers, only that they were all fine. DAT media costs $20 for 1300 
>meg, while 8mm is only $5 for 2300 meg, but either way we're talking only 
>a few cents/meg. DAT drives can go from one end of the tape to the 
>other in 20 seconds, 8mm takes 15 minutes.
>
>APS (back pages of MacWEEK) is selling a WangDAT for $1999 including 
>Retrospect. We are going to order one from somewhere within a week. 

Be sure to check out the Micronet DAT drive as well.  I can't recall what
we paid for it (with developer discount), but we bought it at the same time
we bought two 600mb Micronet (Imprimis) hard drives, for use with an Apple-
Share server.  The DAT drive actually sits on a workstation, and backs up
the server over Ethernet.  It's worked really well for us, and it came with
Retrospect.  We're really looking forward to getting Retrospect Remote, since
(theoretically) it should let us back up all of our QuickMail servers without
having to shut them down.

--Steve
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