austin@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Richard Austin) (10/21/90)
We are looking at options for backing up two Macs (a IIfx & a II) with hard drives of 160 MB each. After reading the review articles in the Nov90 MacWorld and the Dec89 MacUser, we are leaning toward the cassette type of tape drives manufactured by Teac and sold by several companies (MicroNet, Microtech, EMAC, to name a few). This type of drive seems well-suited to us, since the tapes are inexpensive, they hold ~155 MB (we do NOT plan to completely fill our hard disks), and they are fast. However, no one in our department knows anyone else who has used one of these. There is some concern that they (the media or the drives) may not be as reliable as the DC2000 cartridge-type drives or tapes. We plan to make full backups about once a week, with possible daily incremental backups. The drives we are looking at come bundled with Retrospect software, which we've only heard good things about. If you've had experience using the Teac-built cassette drives, we'd like to hear from you. Please let us know your experiences, good or bad. Also, please reply by email--I'll summarize & post to the net if I get at least 5 responses. Thanks! Richard austin@zip.eecs.umich.edu -- Richard Austin austin@zip.eecs.umich.edu