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:
> Distributing multiple backups amongst multiple computers
> would require more computers than the two plus laptop I
> have. Setting up a simple backup scheme to distribute backup
> data amongst these may take me longer than the two or three
> days shipping it will take to order a new tape drive. I only
> have nights and weekends to dabble in computers, and most
> nights I'm too tired. Now that the weather is warming
> boating season is starting and I will be out on the rivers
> West of here and I just won't have enough time.
> I know the limitations of my backup scheme and that is it's
> best feature.

Interesting.  It does seem like the best fit for what you are doing
since you are only replacing certain files and not everything.  So
your probability of hitting a corrupted tape sector is much less.

I also found it interesting that you alternate system partitions
between upgrades.  That's actually a really good idea to protect
against botched upgrades!!!  I might steal that trick :-)
-- 
Kristian Hermansen

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