large capacity tape drives

[Michael Morse]

Does anyone have any experience with large capacity tape drives?
We are looking into providing a central "backup server" for our
uVAX and SUN workstations.  This system would use rdump to take
disk backups.  However, we'd like to avoid the vast number of
1/2 tape reels this would require.  Recently there have been ads
for helical scan technology tape drives.  Has anyone actually used
them?  Any other comments on backing up disks over Ethernet?

--Mike

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