[rescue] DLT Tape Changers

Kevin Loch kloch at gurunet.net
Tue Jan 17 12:05:29 CST 2006


Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Hi.  I have this DLT8700 that I put together myself a couple of years 
> ago, but now I'm starting to outgrow the capacity.  Does anyone know if 
> any of the newer/current DLT or sDLT drives Just Work(tm) if I were to 
> graft it into my changer?
> 

Do you really need to put that much data on tape that often?

Most folks seem to backup to disk now and only burn
tapes for offsite disaster recovery.  I'm sure some people
ship disks for that purpose too.

- Kevin



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