Source for refurbished Tape Drives or Drive Repair

[kristian.hermansen at gmail.com (Kristian Hermansen)]

On 3/18/07, jbk <jbk at mail2.gis.net> wrote:
> I had a tape drive fail this week. It happened right before
> a kernel update on my machine that caused me to erroneously
> file a bug with redhat. I have been following the discussion
> on backup strategies on this forum and fedoraforum and I've
> decided that for me backing up to tape is still the best
> option. I currently have a travan 4 drive and I could move

I am interested in why you have decided to stick with tape.  I have
read research papers that claim tapes fail nearly 100% of the time
given some pretty common constraints (time, backup method, rotation,
etc).  IIRC, this biggest factor was the high probability of failed
restoration from a backup tape.  In the end, it should be cheaper to
backup to disk, right?  And if it is a USB/Firewire removable drive,
you can still store it in a vault between backups.  I'm just really
interested in how you came to the conclusion that tape is still the
best method for you :-)
-- 
Kristian Hermansen

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