On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 07:14, Gene Heskett wrote: > I quite regularly put 11 or more GB of raw data on DDS2 tapes when I > was using tape, but the tape format I could afford was also a very > undependable format, and I'd place the current crop of DDS4 drives in > this same category, so I'm now using virtual tapes on a large hd and > having .000001% of the trouble I had with tape. I never met a DDS2 drive I liked. DDS3/4 have been much more reliable for me. > Until that 200GB > drive dies there will not be any errors not of MY doing. Have you tried backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/)? It will cram about 10x more backup history onto that drive. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
