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I have tape drive now, a used Travan 10/20. Not bad, not bad. Going to try my hand at automated backups again, we'll see how it turns out.
It's a tad slow, though I won't complain loudly since the price was
right. I backed up my 5.9GB /home partition with a
tar cf /dev/tape /home
; I did not time it, but it took over an hour.
Here's how long it took to pull off 59MB of data near the end of the
tape:
real 109m38.125s
user 0m1.230s
sys 0m16.340s
That's nearly two hours' time to perform under 20 seconds of work. Yay for sequential data access!