Purchase a DLT system It's faster, more reliable than DAT, and less cheaper ! I have one on my 979KS100 Instead of 4 hours, the backup takes about 1h30mn Patrick Paul H Christidis wrote in message ... >Fellow listers, > >After a recent rash of problems, where our backup would not fit on our available >DDS-2 drives, I decided to try and see if I could 'upgrade' to DDS-3 and thus >the extra tape capacity would resolve the need of someone driving in the middle >of the night to mount the additional tapes (For a variety of reasons going to >DLT is not an option at this point). > >After finding out that my sales rep. had retired and after being passed around >and waiting for a call back for a couple of days, I finally talked to human >being today and I was informed that the only DDS-3 drives available for my >system (a 969/220) were of the 're-marketed' variety. > >Does this sound right? The DDS-3 drive 'product' has already been discontinued? > >Regards >Paul Christidis >