Looking for tape drive backup replacements?

Most people today are getting tired of having to replace tape drives every couple of years. Tape drives are getting more expensive and become less durable over time. Here is what the market has found to be a cheaper more reliable solution. The Tanberg RDX and the Dell RD1000. Both act like tape drives, but use a hard disk drive as its backup media. Lets compare!
Comparisons	Tape Drives	RD1000 & RDX Backup Drives
Average Cost for a unit	$500 - $2000	$100 - $350
Average Cost for media (2)	$100 - $300	$200 - $400
Average Life of unit	2-4 years
Reliable Multiple backups on 1 media	NO	YES

LONE-TAR 4.3.2.2 Update

Just released the latest update to the 4.3.2.x series of LONE-TAR & AIR-BAG.

If you are using encryption please update to 4.3.2.2 ASAP. This is a free update to all 4.3.x LONE-TAR users.

Update includes:

• Added bug fix for SSH backups that spanned multiple days. This update has the fix.
• Changed how logs get loaded to remote SSH server after successful backup/verify. Now only the last catalog gets uploaded rather than the entire '/log' directory.
• Enhanced encryption support for AIR-BAG with LONE-TAR encryption on their backups.