[TUHS] Irwin 285

Sergey Lapin slapinid at gmail.com
Fri Jan 22 03:41:10 AEST 2010


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:07:07 +0300
> Sergey Lapin <slapinid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ah, that's so bad, so I will really need to buy some vintage SCSI
>> tape drive to fullfill my backup needs.
> If you really want tape backup: Get a DLT drive. This is the most
> reliable tape technology I came across. Next to it are the big QIC
> drives that use DC6xxx or DC9xxx media. (Don't confuse this with the
> MiniQIC stuff that was used for floppy streamers.) This would be a
> proper backup for an old Unix box. (DC600 tapes where a common
> distribution media for Unix software in the pre-CDROM era.)
>
> Avoid helical scan like DAT or Exabyte 8 mm.
>
> Hmmm. Well. 9-track tape is even more reliable then DLT. But how much
> data do you get on a 2400' tape at 6250 bpi? (Answer left to the reader
> as an exercise. ;-) )
>
> Or, as Jason mentioned: Consider disk backup on at least two redundant
> disks. (Does not need to be RAID. Just copy all data to two indepentent
> disks.)
>
> Store at least one backup off site...
>
> Forget CD-R and DVD-R.

Thanks a lot for all advices! Now I think I've got two problems now -
one is to implement backup
(which is unrelated here), and one, for fun, to make device working.
I've got drive and have just got
full vintage cabinet full of tapes to experiment on :) (since company
where I've got that box with a drive
decided to move all their old trash to local scrap and I talked them
into giving that tapes cabinet to me,
including contents. I just don't know what stuff is on these tapes,
but that in itself is intriguing :)

All the best,
S.
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