I like Seagate tape drives.  Look at model STT2401A - it's an IDE drive
(save on the SCSI card), does up to 40GB compressed, is fairly cheap ($300
or so), media isn't too expensive, and it Just Works(tm).

Regards,
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Cameron Technical Services, Inc.
http://www.camerontech.com
(512) 454-3200
----- Original Message -----
From: "Liberty Young" <liberty@embeddedx86.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: SCSI backup solution


> I'd estimate about 40GBs in total, incremental backups being small (less
> than 1GB)
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 12:31, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > How much data do you need to back up?  I would make a much different
> > recommendation to back up 40 GB of data vs. 2 TB.
> >
> > TC
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Liberty Young" <liberty@embeddedx86.com>
> > To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 2:17 PM
> > Subject: SCSI backup solution
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Working for a small business, what would you all out there recommend
for
> > > a backup solution? I'm leaning toward Tape backups, but the solution
> > > needs to hit these things:
> > >
> > > 1) Be easy enough for somebody at the end of the day to just pop out a
> > > tape, pop it in, and walk away.
> > >
> > >
> > > 2) modestly priced.
> > >
> > > 3) Enough Linux support already there so i can get it working within a
> > > weekend.
> > >
> > > With these in mind, what Tape Drives should I buy? I don't have a SCSI
> > > capable Server yet, but i believe that could be fixed with a pci card.
> > > Any suggestions for one of those?
> > >
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