Tape drives

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003, Kurt Wall wrote:
>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.

I've been using in on SuSE 8.[12] for about six months now with
excellent results (also on FreeBSD 4.8 STABLE).  We've used the
Adaptec and SIIG USB2/Firewire PCI cards.

Bill
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