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From: waldref@psueea.UUCP (Greg Waldref)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Tape drives for backups (info request)
Message-ID: <387@psueea.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 00:38:21 EST
Article-I.D.: psueea.387
Posted: Thu Nov  6 00:38:21 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Nov-86 09:08:55 EST
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Organization: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Portland State University; Portland OR
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In article <1320@sunybcs.UUCP> ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin) writes:
>
>   I would like to ask for information on tape drives for backup purposes
>for the IBM PC.  I use one at my job, and when I was hired there recently I 
>....
>
>   The information I would like is the usual:  price, speed, reliablity,
>outstanding features, etc.  Also, if anyone out there has a personal 
>preference for a particular one, please post!  I am relatively new to 
>PC's, so any information is helpful...thanks in advance!
>

Look into the Everex tape system.  It can be had for about $800, but
if you are real good at shopping, $700.
 
The software that comes with it is about the best that is out there.
The biggest selling points that I liked were: You can make an image back
up, and then restore from that image, file by file or image.  Also
It will prompt you to put a next tape in, if you need to back up more
then the tape size.  It comes with a scheduler that will let you back
up stuff any way you want (ie. what files) whenever you tell it.
 
I've had mine for about 2 weeks, and have had no problems. 
 
greg
...tektronix!psu-cs!psueea!waldref
 
ps. I am not connected with Everex (or anyone).