Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!orc!inews!iwarp.intel.com!ogicse!pdxgate!parsely!percy!qiclab!techbook!kenh From: kenh@techbook.com (Ken Haynes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: tape drive recommendations Message-ID: <1991Jan25.183346.18892@techbook.com> Date: 25 Jan 91 18:33:46 GMT References: Distribution: comp.sys.novell Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix Lines: 29 In article lichty@saguaro.anthro.utah.edu (Alan Lichty) writes: >I am in the process of setting up a network for a work group on our >campus and need to buy a cartridge tape subsystem for backing up the >fileserver. I am interested in recommendations/tales of woe for the >various offerings currently on the market. Budget constraints >precluse DAT/Exabyte as a choice - we have about $700 - $800 to spend >total. Please email directly to me (lichty@anthro.utah.edu) and I >will summarize to the net if there is sufficient interest. > The decision regarding what kind of tape drive to get should be driven off of several factors, not the least of which of course is budget. How large of a hard disk does the server have? How user/operator intensive can the software be? How much time does the operator have during backups? The capacity, speed and user friendliness can be determined asking these questions. Depending on how much $$ is going to be spent having an operator work a slow user unfriendly piece of software/hardware over the course of time, could assist in helping the powers to be increase the budget. $700-$800 is not a lot of money to spend on a tape backup system. Ken -- ****************************************************************************** Network Support Services: Ken Haynes, Certified Netware Engineer