On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 01:18:48AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

> 
> The Sony AIT-1 looks ok, but many of those are probably worn out by 
> now.  So does the AIT-2, but again, the $ slow me down.
> 
> So what does the retired home user with a 600 dollar budget (500 for 
> the deck, 100 for media) look for today when he goes touring on ebay?
> 

I had the same problem. I considered these alternatives and choose DVD.

- older DLT tapes, e.g. 10GB are relatively cheap. I personally have so bad
  experiences with DDS, that i would also prefer AIT-1 to some kind of
  DDS.

- DVD+RW or DVD-RW drives.
  They are not so nice to use with Amanda because they are not tapes.
  I use a dvd+rw with Amandas file driver and then running a script to
  burn a dvd.

 Ciao
     Dietmar

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