large capacity tape drives

[Tim Olson]

In article <18215 at adm.BRL.MIL> mmorse at note.nsf.gov (Michael Morse) writes:
| Does anyone have any experience with large capacity tape drives?
| We are looking into providing a central "backup server" for our
| uVAX and SUN workstations.  This system would use rdump to take
| disk backups.  However, we'd like to avoid the vast number of
| 1/2 tape reels this would require.  Recently there have been ads
| for helical scan technology tape drives.  Has anyone actually used
| them?  Any other comments on backing up disks over Ethernet?

We've been using an Exebyte EXB-8200 tape drive for about 2 months, now,
and it seems to work just fine.  This drive uses 8-mm Video Tapes to
hold about 2.5GB of data; we perform daily dumps from about 6 machines
that are NFS'ed together.

	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim at crackle.amd.com)