E Arredondo wrote:
> I'm currently using DAT24 tape drive , and it's time to upgrade due to
> shortage of capacity, Would you recommend a REV or a DSS72 ? SCO OSR505
>
>

Depends on your storage needs and window for backup. The Iomega isn't
going to hold as much as tape can, and it will be slower (well, that
does depend on the tape, of course).

Other than that, the Iomega is cheap and so far very reliable.

--
Tony Lawrence
Unix/Linux/Mac OS X resources: http://aplawrence.com

E Arredondo wrote:
> I'm currently using DAT24 tape drive , and it's time to upgrade due to
> shortage of capacity, Would you recommend a REV or a DSS72 ? SCO OSR505

If you use a supertar, SCO 505 might be a problem with REV,
particularly
for IDE. Not sure about SCSI. Check the vendor's docs. If a supertar
has problems with the REV, the REV might be altogether incompatible
with
SCO 505, tar, cpio, etc. I'm not sure.

Good luck,
Dan Martin

In article ,
E Arredondo wrote:
>I'm currently using DAT24 tape drive , and it's time to upgrade due to
>shortage of capacity, Would you recommend a REV or a DSS72 ? SCO OSR505

You might look into the VXA series from Exabyte,

8NM - VXA-1 is 33/66GB and VXA-2 is 80/106GB. Figures are
for native and compressed. Using hardware compression the data
transfer is twice as fast. The VXA-1 backup speed is 3 or 6MB/sec
while the VXA-2 is 6 or 12 MB/sec.

Bill

--
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

Dan Martin wrote:
> E Arredondo wrote:
>
>>I'm currently using DAT24 tape drive , and it's time to upgrade due to
>>shortage of capacity, Would you recommend a REV or a DSS72 ? SCO OSR505
>
>
> If you use a supertar, SCO 505 might be a problem with REV,
> particularly
> for IDE. Not sure about SCSI. Check the vendor's docs. If a supertar
> has problems with the REV, the REV might be altogether incompatible
> with
> SCO 505, tar, cpio, etc. I'm not sure.
>

I've not used one but at a recent SCO forum on OSR6 etc, some Iomega
people gave a presentation about Rev and said it worked well with
Microlite's supertar, indeed you can create bootable recovery disks
using the supertar. They also said it was faster than tape, especially
for the recovery of single files.

My notes say:
6 x faster than DAT
no need for cleaning
lower cost
1000 x more durable than DAT
35 GB native, 90 GB compressed (using Microlite Backup Edge)

I don't know how much of its usability depends on OSR6 features. However
I've certainly hot-plugged conventional SCSI disks under OSR505 so I'd
be optimistic about OSR505 + SCSI-Rev drive + latest supertar.

http://www.backupedge.com/BackupEDGE...atibility.html
Mentions OSR505 and Rev drives.

Ian Wilson wrote:
> Dan Martin wrote:
> > E Arredondo wrote:
> >
> >>I'm currently using DAT24 tape drive , and it's time to upgrade due to
> >>shortage of capacity, Would you recommend a REV or a DSS72 ? SCO OSR505
> >
> >
> > If you use a supertar, SCO 505 might be a problem with REV,
> > particularly
> > for IDE. Not sure about SCSI. Check the vendor's docs. If a supertar
> > has problems with the REV, the REV might be altogether incompatible
> > with
> > SCO 505, tar, cpio, etc. I'm not sure.
> >
>
> I've not used one but at a recent SCO forum on OSR6 etc, some Iomega
> people gave a presentation about Rev and said it worked well with
> Microlite's supertar, indeed you can create bootable recovery disks
> using the supertar. They also said it was faster than tape, especially
> for the recovery of single files.
>
> My notes say:
> 6 x faster than DAT
> no need for cleaning
> lower cost
> 1000 x more durable than DAT
> 35 GB native, 90 GB compressed (using Microlite Backup Edge)
>
> I don't know how much of its usability depends on OSR6 features. However
> I've certainly hot-plugged conventional SCSI disks under OSR505 so I'd
> be optimistic about OSR505 + SCSI-Rev drive + latest supertar.
>
> http://www.backupedge.com/BackupEDGE...atibility.html
> Mentions OSR505 and Rev drives.

And Microlite has a handy table showing REV support, including SCO,
here:
http://www.backupedge.com/REV_Downlo..._download.html

In summary:
SCSI--not until SCO 507
USB-- not until SCO 507, but not bootable
ATAPI--supported on 506 but requires WD supplement
SCO 505 is not listed here. To the best of my knowledge,
no REV drive will work with Microlite and 505.

Not listed is OSR6, but my understanding is that USB REV will be
bootable.
Note that with OSR6, you cannot make emergency boot floppies of any
kind, due to the kernel size.

Regards,
Dan Martin