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<tt><tt>Tape drives are hard to come by these days.<br>
</tt>Have you thought about a USB drive for backup?</tt><br>
<tt>Or a NAS box.</tt><br>
<tt>There are several inexpensive 1 and 2 drive NAS enclosures that
you can get to put on your local network.<br>
Having network storage is always handy for things like running as
a media server.<br>
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<br>
It may be worth looking into getting the drive fixed.<br>
I believe that Memofix(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.memofix.com/">http://www.memofix.com/</a>) will repair tape
drives.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/09/2016 09:35 AM, Steve Petrie,
P.Eng. via talk wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:8172549BD929472EA5074F2E027C8ECC@Dell"
type="cite">Greetings To GTALUG Members,
<br>
<br>
A setback has occurred in my project to acquire a new Linux PC.
<br>
<br>
On the Windows XP PC that is going to be replaced by the new Linux
PC,
<br>
the DDS-3 DAT SCSI tape drive has died, that does backup duty for
the
<br>
HDD. Died too soon by only a couple of months -- !@#$%^&*(!!
<br>
<br>
Since it could still take a few months for me to complete the
<br>
acquisition of and conversion to the new Linux PC, I am not going
to
<br>
risk operating the Windows XP PC without regular HDD backup for so
long.
<br>
<br>
So, I need to source a replacement tape drive for the Windows XP
PC,
<br>
before I can continue with acquisition of the new Linux PC.
<br>
<br>
A soon as I have a replacement tape drive operating on the Windows
XP
<br>
PC, I will resume the Linux PC acquisition project, and complete
the revisions to
<br>
the specification of components, per advice from GTALUG members.
<br>
<br>
Regards,
<br>
<br>
Steve
<br>
<br>
* * *
<br>
<br>
Steve Petrie, P.Eng.
<br>
<br>
ITS-ETO Consortium
<br>
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
<br>
(905) 847-3253
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:apetrie@aspetrie.net">apetrie@aspetrie.net</a>
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