> > hardware, but some drivers work better than others.
>
> Why not buy an extra disk and automatically create tarballs to it?
> Maybe doing a tape backup once a week or month in addition to this.
> I have found DAT drives working well - but the tapes are quite small,
> compared to disks available now.

i do full backup once per month or even two. and incremental backups (
dump level >0) always fits on 2GB tape