[vdr] Re: index.vdr still needed ? (OT)

[Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de>]

On Tuesday,  2. October 2001 15:56, Axel Gruber wrote:
> >> Another Idea is a Streamer - but the tapes of the most
> >> Streamers are realy expensive.....
> >
> > DAT-Streamer....
> > A used 2-4 GB streamer is about DM 100-200,- and tapes are between 3,-
> > and 5,- DM
>
> Hmm - i have a DDS3(or2) streamer with a capacity of 2 GB - but - that are
> 2 GB ??? - the second thing is, that the streamer only have a transfer-RATe

2 GB, much to little space for my mind, 4 GB is minimum for a single movie.

> of a X4 CD-ROM - and i donīt know if itīs possible to acces to it like to a
> USUAL drive ?
>
> Unter WINDOWS there is a tool called DAT-ACCESS - with it you can access to
> the streamer during a drive-Letter - so you can handle it like a usual
> drive...

There was kdat (you might still find it somewhere in the net, but it has no 
maintainer).

It kept a archive with the files for any tape you wrote with it on hard disk 
and you had simply to select what file you need and choose the action 
(save/restore). It worked for my OnStream drive (but has some bugs).

Anyway, it's to slow for me - as i mentioned i use now dvbackup (the price 
for a 15GB tape (without compression as it makes no sense for MPEG) is only 
15,- DM. But it's probably not comfortable enough for you ;-)