On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Rick Rosinski wrote:

> I am looking for a tape backup drive that can work well with linux and backup a
> 50 Gigabyte system.  I have read the ftape how-to, and I am disapointed;  it
> appears to support the lower-end (lesser tape drives), and it has issues with

That's it's job in life. Go elsewhere for real tape drives :).

> the floppy controller on some PCI boards.  I am looking for a higher end tape
> backup (preferrably Internal) that will work with any PCI system.  

Look at http://www.linuxtapecert.org/.

For scsi, e.g. the way to go if you're really serious, I've had Ecrix
recommended to me. I'm planning on getting one in the near future.

The tests for Ecrix are pretty cool. They dunk tapes in boiling water and
coffee :).

For ide I've had OnStream recommended to me. They're supposed to be pretty
good.

DLT has done well for me in the past and I know of quite a few people who
use it with Linux. DLT 8000s are supposed to have probs. DLT 7000s are
supposed to be eoled in the near future...

For scsi tape dev is /dev/st0. Then just use tar, cpio, dd, bru, whatever
as normal. The vendors will have patches if necessary.

ciao,

der.hans
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