Hi, Paul.

PE> Frank, which backup tape unit did you buy, and why, and how much did it
PE> cost?  BFN.  Paul.

Colorado Travan. Price, stable technology (I was thinking of DAT to get
2/4Gig, Brenton reckons they're a bit variable plus cost a lot more),
capacity (400meg raw, 800meg if it manages to get 2:1 compression - it
doesn't, 'cos a lot of my stuff is already zipped which gets about 1:1.
The client etc database goes over 1:1.5 though), the availability of
another unit if this one fails/gets trashed/stolen/whatever (Brenton has
one).

Cost I don't know as I got a whole lot of other stuff at the same time,
would have to dig out the invoice. Ask Brenton.

PE> P.S. And did you need to buy a SCSI controller card for it?

No, it runs off the floppy controller which now has 1.44 & 1.2 meg
floppies, the (very!) old Colorado 40meg and the new Travan hanging off
it, all coexisting peacefully (but not simultaneously although the other
day I was in the middle of a multi-tape restore from the 40meg, went off
to do something else and it stopped and asked for the next tape. In the
meantime my timed auto backup started on the Travan and ran
successfully. When I returned I put in the next 40meg tape and IT ran
successfully!)

You can also get them (or a similar model) for the printer port and with
their own controller card. The latter would be fastest but it's not a
problem for me.

The software has a bug regarding the timestamp it saves for the file,
have to get onto them about that.

Regards, fIM.

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