Tape Backup

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OT- for the backup disk/ drive/ but about your sourve?

Forgive the intrusion, but if interested I'd suggest you purvue the TOS
at
NewEgg.com before you pay cash and possibly get nothing.

Some Highlights:

All refunds entail a 15% restocking fee, even defective units.
Buyer pays all return postage.
A return does not effect their thirty day warranty. It will always
start from the date of the original shipment. If you get a bad one, you
have to choose to go with out their 30 day warranty (a return will take
more than this time period based on my experience) or take the for sure
15% plus shipping cost (both ways) guaranteed loss.
They don't seem to answer e-mails (try for your self).
They don't have much in the way of service, try calling before you buy.
Be ready to holdddddd.....

I had to return my purchase and it never arrived so I asked for a
refund. I have so far waited 10 times longer than I was told the wait
would be in writting. I have been promised expedited service twice, yet
have not seen a dime.

Just drive to a store and walk in, that way they can't hide/ ignore you
in hopes you give up and go away. NewEgg.com does not offer walk in
service, so go somewhere else.

Many people claim to have had great luck with newegg.com, but to me it
just isn't worth the risk after experiencing how bad it can get. Funny
though! Better than the keystone cops...

New Jingle= "Buy Something From NewEgg.com, Just For Laughs"

Don't be taken advantage of big low ball resellers. You have the cash,
so you have the upper hand. You shouldn't have to "kiss up" to a
business to get good service and quality. You should demand it, and go
somewhere else if they can't deliver. Plain and simple.
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FWIW, newegg has one of the highest buyer satisfaction ratings
on resellerratings.com

The're huge, and with that many transactions, any company is going to
collect a few angry customers. They gave me a refund on a DOA mobo
via email. The refusnd couldn;t have happened any faster.
 
Arno Wagner said:
Good idea. This is really just "persistent buffering", a quite old
technology, e.g. implemented in many tape-library storage systems.

But please use at least 3 independent sets of tapes with this too
and verify the readability of your tapes at regular intervals.
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Any reason why three should be used?
 
Any reason why three should be used?
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2 is simple:
While you do a backup, you destroy one. So if
you discover a problem with the original while making a backup,
and you have only one medium, you are entirely without backup _and_
have a damaged original.

My personal reasons for 3:
- If you only have 2 and then one of the media dies,
you run into the problem above.
- It adds some redundandency. 2 is clearly the minimum. So 3
adds a safety margin, i.e. when one medium dies you can still
an additional backup.
- If you backup device/software breaks and kills the medium
(for whatever reason, can also be a virus, etc.), you
are likely to assume medium failure first and try with
the second medium. If that breaks also, you still have one
good backup.
- Other good reasons I am not aware of. It seems to be common
wisdom among sysadmins...

Actually many admins think that 3 backups are too little, because
you get too little history. Still, better any backup than none,
but don't feel to safe even with backup.

I admit that you can work with 2 medium sets, if you get a replacement
_immediately_ in case one of the media fails.

Arno
 
Arno said:
I admit that you can work with 2 medium sets, if you get a replacement
_immediately_ in case one of the media fails.
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Since 2 Days i use a DLT to save Backup Images to Tapes.Currently,i
have 5 Sets of different Days on it.
Why 5 Sets?
I make them over the time and store them on 3 different Hardisks.But
they are full now and i have to store them elsewhere.And with 70 Bucks
for a used Dlt and 5$/Tape,the Cost Issue Disk vs. DLT are no longer
valid.The Software i use,is the "famous" Tar from a Linux CD.Why
Tar?It just works as it should and no need for a 70$ Backup Software.
 
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