> Drive is around $600.  Finding media in the $3-5 range is pretty easy.

Cool.  That's about the same range as the Exabyte that I've got.

> was originaly considering a TR-4.  The drives themselves are much cheaper,
> but the media is $30-40 apiece. [...] I came to the conclusion that in
> two years you'd end up running neck and neck in terms of total cost.

Actually, it's sooner than that if you're doing daily backups...  ;-)
I'm running Amanda, backing up several systems with week-day backups
on a cycle of 15 tapes.

Anyway, do let us know how the tape drive does.  :-)

A note on the Solaris -> NetBSD incompatibility.  That could have been
due to a different default compression option used on Solaris, too.  I
don't know.  I do know that in the earlier days of 4mm, it was easy to
write tapes on one HP drive that were unreadable on newer drives.

-allen

-- 
                    Allen Briggs - briggs@ninthwonder.com