[KLUG Members] Backup hardware and software

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>Anyone using HP or Seagate Travan tape drives for backups? 
>>How about Arkeia verses BRU for software?
>I use a Seagate Travan drive.  Works very well, thank you very much. 
>I don't need any fancy-pants backup software, either: after compiling

Agree,  the standard backup utilities can handle just about anything.  GNU tar
is much more advanced than the tar binary that comes with most commercial UNIX
versions.

>and loading the 'ide-tape' module, cron and tar do a great job (combined
>with 'mt' to do tape maintenance).

In order to update my opinions :)  What is the current version of Travan?  DO
tapes still need to be "formatted"?


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