OT: SLR 5 Tape drive vs DAT

[Bob Stockler]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:13:58AM -0600, Lerebours, Jose wrote:
| Walter aired:
| > 
| > Fairlight wrote:
| > > DVD-RW/+RW anyone?
| > 
| > Cons:
| > 	They only allow up to 100,000 rewrite cycles[1]
| > Pros:
| > 	Disks are about $1.50 each now.
| > 	Writers are less than $100 now.
| > 
| > Yep, I wanna be in the tape business today. Oh, wait we beat 
| > that up a 
| > few weeks ago...
| > 
| 
| Never mind CDs/DVDs ... use Flash media!
| 
| Funny how we, the filePro community, appear to be
| inclined to suggest the use of technology that is
| more common in the windows arena than it is in
| *NIX.
| 
| I am sure that LINUX has tools to use CDs and DVDs
| but I am not sure they are as advanced as those
| available for windows.  I can almost bet the farm
| that SCO UNIX has nothing available worth talking
| about - specially if money (cost) is an issue.
| 
| It is refreshing to see the flexibility shown and the
| apparent willingness to talk about things and possibly
| suggest the use of non-unix based solutions.
| 
| I know, not all members of the list are unix shop.  It
| is good to see them come out of the closet and not
| have them asked back.   :-)

Both LONE-TAR and BackupEDGE support backing up to DVD+RW
media.  I've used both to do so on SCO OSR 5.0.6.

Bob

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