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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Jeremy Ervine <omegasys@adam.com.au>
        <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 15:02:05 +0900

Re: Dat & Travan Archiving

At 11:33 PM 5/3/01 +0930, Jeremy Ervine wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>We have two SCSI backup drives which we would like to use in two different
>applications, one a Travan 10GB uncompressed, 20GB compressed backup drive,
>and a Segate DAT 20GB Uncompressed, 40GB compressed.

My experience with Travan 10/20GB drives is that they are not very good. I
have had 4 fail within about 4 months ...

>When we installed the travan in the server we tried using the Taper backup
>utility, and it says it doesn't support drives larger than 4GB. Has anyone
>had any experience here ?
>
>I haven't tried the DAT yet, but I thought I would ask for a general opinion
>from people on the list which software they use to manage dailey incremental
>backups, and weekly full backups either with DAT or Travan.

Amanda ...

>On either of the two computers requiring the tapes do not run any X servers
>on them so all the X applications are out of the question.
>
>I was hoping there is a GPL application similar to taper which supports
>these size tapes. I was hoping that I wasn't gonna have to use Tar, and Cron
>to manage the backups, I would like an application which is partially user
>friendly as there will be a few people responsible for the backups.
>
>
>Regards,
>Jeremy
>
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Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.ethereal.com)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba


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