OT: SLR 5 Tape drive vs DAT

[Bill Vermillion]

Shakespeare wrote plays and sonnets that will last an eternity, 
but on Wed, Feb 02 11:13 , 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 find that BackupEdge and LoneTar for Linux systems are more
advanced than the backup systems I saw clients using on Windows
systems.   But I've only seen a couple of those in use and they
were gawd-awful slow compared to BackupEdge.

> I can almost bet the farm
> that SCO UNIX has nothing available worth talking
> about - specially if money (cost) is an issue.

Good Windows backup SW costs about the same as and Unix commercial
product - often much more.

And a good solution for a windows shop may be a SAN type server and
then back that up to the media that fits the best size factor.

Bill
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