Tape drives are hard to come by these days.
Have you thought about a USB drive for backup?
Or a NAS box.
There are several inexpensive 1 and 2 drive NAS enclosures that you can get to put on your local network.
Having network storage is always handy for things like running as a media server.


It may be worth looking into getting the drive fixed.
I believe that Memofix(http://www.memofix.com/) will repair tape drives.



On 08/09/2016 09:35 AM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote:
Greetings To GTALUG Members,

A setback has occurred in my project to acquire a new Linux PC.

On the Windows XP PC that is going to be replaced by the new Linux PC,
the DDS-3 DAT SCSI tape drive has died, that does backup duty for the
HDD. Died too soon by only a couple of months -- !@#$%^&*(!!

Since it could still take a few months for me to complete the
acquisition of and conversion to the new Linux PC, I am not going to
risk operating the Windows XP PC without regular HDD backup for so long.

So, I need to source a replacement tape drive for the Windows XP PC,
before I can continue with acquisition of the new Linux PC.

A soon as I have a replacement tape drive operating on the Windows XP
PC, I will resume the Linux PC acquisition project, and complete the revisions to
the specification of components, per advice from GTALUG members.

Regards,

Steve

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Steve Petrie, P.Eng.

ITS-ETO Consortium
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
(905) 847-3253
apetrie@aspetrie.net

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