sfrank@orion.oac.uci.edu (Steven Frank) (10/24/90)
I am seeking advice on tape backup systems for the NeXT. Exabyte tape drives seem to have a good reputation among UNIX users. Does anyone use Exabytes with NeXTS? Are they reliable, compatible, convenient, etc.? Are there other drives recommended? Any favorite vendors in Southern California? steve frank steve@fisher.bio.uci.edu
stan@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Stan Osborne) (10/24/90)
In article <2724D726.26915@orion.oac.uci.edu> steve@fisher.bio.uci.edu (Steven Frank) writes: >I am seeking advice on tape backup systems for the NeXT. Exabyte >tape drives seem to have a good reputation among UNIX users. Does >anyone use Exabytes with NeXTS? Are they reliable, compatible, >convenient, etc.? Are there other drives recommended? Any favorite >vendors in Southern California? We have an Exabyte attached to this system. It is used regularly for backups. NeXT provides the "xt" Exabyte device driver so dump and tar work just fine. We have had no problems with our 2.4 GByte tape backup system. We have not tried to exchange tapes with other systems so I can not address the issue of compatiblity. We pay less than $8.00 for an 8mm tape that fits in ones pocket and can backup all of the 1.3Gbytes of disk data on this system. With the Exabyte we backup many other systems using the network. These are some of the many convenient things that come from using an Exabyte. We bought our Exabyte from Galaxy Systems in Foster City, CA (Northern). (They gave us a real good price.) Stan -- Stan Osborne, Computer Science Department, San Francisco State University Internet: stan@cs.sfsu.edu Usenet: cshub!stan Voice: (415) 338-2168