[comp.unix.i386] Large tape backup for SV.3 on 386's

paul@dialogic.UUCP (Paul Bennett) (06/02/89)

Has anyone found a solution for backing up large disks to tape under SV.3 on
368 machines ? We have a a network of 386's running 386/ix, one with a 300MB
ESDI disk, and it's a royal pain to back them all up to 60mB cartriges.

I would dearly love to use one of the new 8mm video
cassette drives (2GB on one cartidge) that are available
for 386 machines, but I come up against the same problem - no drivers. Novell,
yes, DOS, yes, UNIX - what's UNIX ? I found one company that has a SCSI 
version for SUNS, but the driver problem still remains.

1) Has anyone got one of these tape drives to run under SV.3 ?
2) Has anyone tried using the SCSI driver that comes with 386/ix 2.0.1 to
   run a SCSI version of one of these tape drives?

Paul Bennett
Dialogic Corp.

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