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Recommendation On A Tape Drive
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mosespatrader
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Jul 6, 2004, 12:58 PM
 
Anybody have a recommendation on a external tape drive that is supported under Mac OS X and is around $500
     
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Jul 6, 2004, 05:27 PM
 
Originally posted by mosespatrader:
Anybody have a recommendation on a external tape drive that is supported under Mac OS X and is around $500
Probably one of the Exabyte firewire tape drives. How much data you looking to back up? $500 is very low end for a tape drive.

Personally I'd back up to an external firewire HD and offsite the thing. Have an rsync script (or Now Synchronize) to do differential updates every couple days.
     
   
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