Hi Duane - thanks for the info - I'm glad to know that there is something
else available if DDS disappears!

Bill

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I bet Denys has good info on this topic, but I
can offer our personal experience of non-dds
backup devices.

* We have used DLT on our 3k systems for 2.5 years
  and wouldn't go back to dds. The performance
  and reliability is soooo much better.

* We had made the same conversion (dds to dlt) for
  our NT server farm even earlier. We recently
  upgraded this from dlt to lto (100-200gb). We
  have been very pleased with lto.

* We sure wish hp would support the lto drives THEY
  make (ultrium) on the hp e3000.

duane percox

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