The boss has just decreed that we need to increase retention for desktop 
backups, and has noted that we've been very good financially and need to 
spend more of our budget to keep it out of the hands of Uncle Sam.  ;)

So, anyone have suggestions on external changer devices, 8 tape capacity?  
Any brands/model families you would particularly recommend, or would 
recommend we -avoid-?  Also, as we've been dealing exlcusively with DDS 
here, what are pros- and cons- of the different media formats (AIT, DLT, 
LTO, etc) (linkage is appreciated too, I'm sure I'm not the first to ask 
this)?  Any thoughts/recommendations on larger capacity single-drive 
devices, rather than a multi-tape configuration?  Our current changer is 
only an old DDS-3 Sony STL-9000 (1 tape a day), so using a large tape over 
the course of a week certainly isn't beyond the realm of possibility as 
well...

Sorry to send this out to the Amanda list, I just figure it's one of the 
better collectives of tape-device users to ask...

-- 
Daniel Bentley - Network Technician, QSI Corporation (www.qsicorp.com)
"Exploits care not whence the clicks come..."