Tape drives

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Bill Campbell:

[tape drive preferences]

> You might want to consider using external firewire hard drives.  You can
> buy 120gb units from CompUSA which handle USB2 and Firewire for about $220
> each.  Given the cost of media for DLT the cost for a 120gb drive is
> comparable to the number of tapes required to back up that much data (not
> to mention the cost of the DLT drive itself), the data's much more
> accessible on a mountable file system, and it's reasonable to use multiple
> drives.  Remember to keep backups off-site.

I like this idea. Has the Linux support for FireWire become mature
enough that using an external FireWire drive as a backup is viable?
I'm supposing so, or you wouldn't have suggested it, but this is my
day to ask obvious questions.

Kurt
-- 
"If you've done six impossible things before breakfast, why not round
it off with dinner at Milliway's, the restaurant at the end of the
universe?"