ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin) (10/31/86)
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
found out that in the two years before I got there they had NEVER backed up
the hard drive, and there is some pretty valuable information regarding
sales, warranty information, etc. Since I have been working there I have
gotten them into a weekly backup procedure, but I would like to do backups
at the close of every business day. However, backing up a 10Mb hard drive
with floppies is a bit time-consuming and almost counterproductive...
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!
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Adrian Zannin -- SUNY at Buffalo Computer Science
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ARPANET: ugzannin%Buffalo@csnet-relay.ARPAwaldref@psueea.UUCP (Greg Waldref) (11/06/86)
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).