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best tape backup system available
I'm trying to find the best tape backup system available. Is anyone using a DLT tape drive
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Re: best tape backup system available
I highly recommend AIT ($2000). I've been using it hard every day for months and never a problem. Backup speed is 150-200 meg/min. and the tapes can hold 25 gig. I wish everything worked this good.
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Re: best tape backup system available
DDS 3 takes a while, favorite is a wharehouse full of hard drives!!
[This message has been edited by Jules (edited March 01, 2000).] |
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Re: best tape backup system available
I have to agree with Steve on this one.....
I've had the highest transfer rate with AIT.. I got 250mB/min.....pure bliss....... otherwise:- Exabyte approx 60 mB/min DDS3 ... 70 .... DVD-RAM .. 40 .... etc ...etc.... Regards Ade |
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Re: best tape backup system available
What software are you guys using for backup? Anyone mounting tapes using DeskTape (or something else) and using the 'Save Session Copy In' command?
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Re: best tape backup system available
We saw an impressive demo by Grey Matter Response of their Mezzo software here at Digi recently. Mezzo supports many archiving devices in a variety of formats such as AIT, DLT, Exabyte and others. You can check them out for yourself here: http://www.mezzogmr.com/
Gregg Montgomery Product Specialist Digidesign [This message has been edited by ProdInfo (edited March 02, 2000).] |
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Re: best tape backup system available
DDS-4 20 gig uncompressed 40 gig compressed, with Mezzo for ProTools
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Re: best tape backup system available
We have been using Mezzo, with exabyte for a while. It works great, very fast, very reliable. The cool thing with mezzo, is it reads the PT session, so all you have to do is drag the session icon onto mezzo, and it will find all the audio files used, not matter what folders they are in, it will also find the QT movies. So yo don't have to worry about a thing.
On a different note,we had really bad experience with scsi dat. besides the fact that is lost stuff, we found that tapes made on one drive , were never readable by any other drive, which made wonder what would happen if a drive failed. Dat in any form has never been the most robust format. cheers Ramesh |
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Re: best tape backup system available
Still very happy with DDS3 and Retrospect.
------------------ -COCO |
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Re: best tape backup system available
just started using vxa tape drive
for backup. works great so far. |
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