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#Tape Drives???

    27-Mar-93 01:11:27
Sb: #Tape Drives???
Fm: Anthony Ramirez 70275,1027
To: All
I am looking for advive from those who have already used Tape Back-Up Drives. I own an A3000 with 2 HDs (52 and 105 Megs), QuarterBack 5.0.4 and am looking into increasing my HD space and after considering it all I would like to get a Tape Back-Up Drive. I understand it isn't a HD, I am simply going to use it to remove from the HD the least used stuff and retrieve it when I need it. Which brings me to ask several questions: Is the A3070 simply a 150 meg drive or can you use `other' tapes to increase it to 250 megs? What are commom transfer rates? Is it somewhere in the 1 meg/min range? Using QuarterBack can I back-up a drive and retrieve just one file like I can with floppies? How well is QuarterBack for Tape-Drives? Is there anything I should look out for or stay away from? Thanks in advance for the help. <<< Tony D. Tracer >>>