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From: mark@intek01.uucp (Mark McWiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Experience w/high-capacity tape drives?
Keywords: exabyte DAT etc.
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.193425.25880@intek01.uucp>
Date: 1 Feb 91 19:34:25 GMT
Organization: Integration Technologies, Inc. (Intek)
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We're finally looking at getting a high-capacity tape drive to back
up our 600 MB (and growing) disk space.  I looked at these six months
ago, but the market seems to be changing fast and I don't know what's
just been released or how good it is.

So: we'll soon have over 1 GB of storage, mixed over Netware and various
Unixes.  I hope it'll all be NFSed together by the time we get the 
tape drive, but I can't guarantee that, so the drive should support NetWare
and Unix V/386.

What would you pick today to back all this up?  Some Exabyte type?  A DAT?
Something else?  Can I really use $8 videotapes with Exabytes?  What are
the "gotchas"?

Thanks in advance.  Please reply by e-mail and I'll post a summary.
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Mark McWiggins			Integration Technologies, Inc. (Intek)
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