Mark,

   You didn't ask but...  I'm using an IEM 8mm drive (4882S) to backup
19Gb to a single tape in 8 hours.  I get 7Gb native, and 14Gb with 2:1
compression.  It's not the fastest or highest capacity unit around, but
it's working fine for my needs.  I believe I paid approximately $3500
for the unit a couple of years ago, and media is approximately $15.  To
the system, the device looks like a DAT drive.

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   My biggest problem with DLT is the media cost....$50 for a 30GB
   cartridge,
   $100+ for a 40 GB cartridge. Since we only have 12 GB to back up,
   both of these
   are kinda wasteful. My software can do appended backups, but we're a
   lights-out
   shop and I don't wanna get caught with not having enough tape at the
   end of a
   volume on night cuz I was doing appended backups. Also, I don't seem
   to be able
   to use fast searches on my DLT...it takes a LONG time to find files
   during a
   restore. The last thing is that, being a kinda small shop, we can
   only afford
   one of these guys right now...which means I can't use my backup tapes
   to
   recover files at some other site, and if my DLT breaks then I am just
   SOL until
   it's fixed...we can't afford a spare unit right now.

   Other than that, I like the DLT. It has great capacity and excellent
   backup
   speeds. It has been very reliable up until now.

   Oh, I am using it to do backups on my HP9000 network, using
   RoadRunner/UX.

   --
   Mark Landin
   T. D. Williamson, Inc.
   UNIX Sys. Admin
   "If you take the smooth, you gotta take the rough" -- Rob Halford




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