as a matter of curiosity, given that disk drives have seen such
spectacular increase in capacity, and you could probably buy 3 or 4
50GB+ IDE drives for the cost of a low-end (and low GB) tape
solution, why not just buy lots of disks and a hot swap / removable
caddy IDE drive cage?
(eg DAT DDS4 + 10ish 12GB tapes is maybe £400. you could buy easily
buy 2 big IDE disks + caddies/cage for that money. make redundant
backups to the disks, you're still ahead of the tapes.)
??
and DAT isnt exactly ultra reliable either and DLT costs loads of
money.
regards,
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