Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup

[Lee Capps]

At 14:04 Fri 14 Oct 2005, Gayn Winters wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 
> > My boss has asked me to try to find a tape-backup solution 
> > for our largely 
> > FreeBSD network of machines and I'm not having a lot of luck, 
> > so I was hoping 
> > for some enlightend pointers from the list.
> > 
> > We need the following features:
> >   20GB+ capacity
> >   USB 2.0
> >   External
> >   < $600CDN
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I've only been able to find two drives that fit our 
> > requirements, one from Ceterance:
> >   http://www.certance.com/products/travan/travan40/STT6401U2-SST
> > the other from HP who claims that theirs only works with 
> > HP-UX.  Does anyone 
> > know if (a) either of those units play nice with FreeBSD?  or 
> > (b) if there 
> > are other tape backup solutions available?
> > 
> > Thanks for any insight.
> 
> Have you considered an external USB2.0 hard drive?  I love my Maxtor One
> Touch.  On nextag.com I see a 300GB for $218 USD at Newegg.  It may be
> worth rethinking your backup and archiving strategies.  (I use removable
> hard drives for archiving, but that's another story...)

Ditto the recommendation of hard drives.  I suppose there are
times when you need tape (archiving?), but hard drives are very
cheap now.  When our tape drive died, We went to two 250GB
Seagate drives which we rotate weekly.

-- 
Lee Capps
Technology Specialist
CTE Resource Center