DAT/DDS tape backups...

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 07:14, Gene Heskett wrote:

> I quite regularly put 11 or more GB of raw data on DDS2 tapes when I 
> was using tape, but the tape format I could afford was also a very 
> undependable format, and I'd place the current crop of DDS4 drives in 
> this same category, so I'm now using virtual tapes on a large hd and 
> having .000001% of the trouble I had with tape.

I never met a DDS2 drive I liked. DDS3/4 have been much more
reliable for me.

> Until that 200GB 
> drive dies there will not be any errors not of MY doing.

Have you tried backuppc  (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/)?
It will cram about 10x more backup history onto that drive.

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  Les Mikesell
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