I haven't used tapes on a linux machine, but I am using retrospect on a mac with a ADIC FastStor ( 7 DLT autoloader type 4000 ). It works amazingly well and it is very fast. We use it to back up our server over the network. I get about 100mb/s out of it on average. I know this is a little OT but I would really recommend a DLT system. Less prone to problems and much faster. Also a lot larger especially compressed. sim Andy Zbikowski wrote: > I'd go with a DDS3 or maybe a DDS4. DDS3 is 12gb uncompressed. I've seen a > few drives on eBay for under you budget. You can't go wrong with DLT IV > (someone [Sony?] released SuperDLT not to long ago, but I haven't looked > into it yet.), except for price. > > It all depends on how much you're backing up, and how often. For me a DDS3 > would be fine. Incremental backup would probably get me by on DDS2 after > doing a full backup to a DDS3 tape. (For my one home box anyway.) > > I haven't had much experience with backups beyond DDS and DLT. I know > someone who has plenty of horror stories to go along with their Echo > soultion though. > > -- > Andy Zbikowski, Sys Admin | (WEB) http://www.ltiflex.com > LTI Flexible Products, Inc. | (PH) 763-428-9119 (EX) 132 > 21801 Industrial Blvd | (FX) 763-428-9126 > Rogers, MN 55374 | (PCS) 612-306-6055