When D2120 and DC2120XL tape no longer held enough for my needs, I did 
look briefly at the Travan line, which seemed rather closely related to 
the DC2xxx series, but decided that the media cost was prohibitive. 
Instead I picked up a refurbished Archive/Conner/Seagate DDS2 autoloader 
which I used with BA2 and later BA2K. Although these were unable to take 
advantage of the drive's ability to access tapes randomly, they worked 
fine with the drive set for sequential mode: when one tape was full, the 
next loaded automatically and the backup continued.

Then, when DDS2 no longer met my needs, I switched to DDS4 (20GB per 
$8-or-cheaper tape without compression), initially with a 
non-autoloader, but later with a $25-on-ebay (including a magazine full 
of tapes) Compaq (relabeled Sony) DDS4 autoloader.

In short, I think that using Travan tapes is a recipe for financial 
disaster.

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Alan


On 10/21/05 08:53 pm John Stewart tossed the following ingredients into 
the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

> Anyone out there using such a beast for backup? I have just been handed
> a CTT8000E-S drive, external SCSI model, apparently capable of 8GB on a
> single tape.
> 
> If you are using one, any recommendations on backup software or where to
> buy media?
> 
> My current backup solution is copying data from one machine to another
> with a batch file, and I'm not terribly concerned about that solution
> since the machines are geographically separated. Still, it wouldn't be
> bad to have something on-site.


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