Hi Mike, I'm building an entry level web server and this tape drive is going into it. I should only hope that I will do so much hosting that this IDE tape drive becomes too slow. The amount of data I have at this point will take seconds to backup. I hope to be blessed with 30 GIGs of hosted data. That would be large! Thank all of you for your replies. This whole thing is a big challenge to me. I was a FoxPro programmer, so as you can see this is a switch. Thanks again, Keith Mike Cantrell wrote: > > Well... I looked at the specs for your drive and it does a Meg/sec.... 30 > gig's would take just over 8 hours (if my math was correct :) where most > SCSI backups can double that figure and do the same backup in only 4 hours. > That would be one reason. > > Regards, > Mike Cantrell > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 11:37 PM > Subject: Re: Tape Backup > > > At 07:37 PM 05/30/2000 -0700, you wrote: > > > > > >For an IDE tape drive it's probably /dev/ftape, I think. IDE sucks for > > >backups :). > > > > Care to educate me as to why it sucks? > > TIA > > Bob Holtzman > > "If you think you're getting free lunch, > > check the price of the beer!" > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Jesus is Lord!, Keith Smith 520.298.2227 ------------------------------ Come see what's new at: http://www.christian-home.net/