It's not so much the drive, but the software that'll bite you on the butt. I was using ArcServe at my old job and it was expensive ($800) and tech support was terrible and also expensive (only free for 90 days from first incident). It was a bitch to install and get the Netware drivers just right and was tempermental. When it worked - it worked well. When it didn't - it'd crash your server 'bigger than Dallas'. It's the same old story: it was a good product until they got bought by another company (computer associates - yuk yuk phooey) and then service went to hell.
Right now I'm using the default back up program that comes with NT, it's free (with the OS) but you can't set a timer to make it start at 1am or something like you can with the Win98 backup program. And of course it's not as robust as something like ArcServe for handling open files, etc. But it does the job for me.
You pretty much can't go wrong with sony as far the drive goes, however I don't remember what model ours is. It uses the 4mm DDS 3 tapes though, and now you can get them for like $15 (?).
As far as hardiness, tapes do wear out & break. Our Eagle NS8 drive used to eat tapes right and left and at about $40 per tape it added up quickly.
Good Luck!
Right now I'm using the default back up program that comes with NT, it's free (with the OS) but you can't set a timer to make it start at 1am or something like you can with the Win98 backup program. And of course it's not as robust as something like ArcServe for handling open files, etc. But it does the job for me.
You pretty much can't go wrong with sony as far the drive goes, however I don't remember what model ours is. It uses the 4mm DDS 3 tapes though, and now you can get them for like $15 (?).
As far as hardiness, tapes do wear out & break. Our Eagle NS8 drive used to eat tapes right and left and at about $40 per tape it added up quickly.
Good Luck!
