linux, backing up, jazz drives and others question

[brent harding <bharding greenbaynet com>]

			How easy is it to use debian 2.2 potato with various backup drives,
jazz, tape, etc? The jazz drive howto looks quite easy to set up, does it
work fairly well? How expensive are the cartridges for it? I rarely heard
of what it was until I looked for a howto and passed it on the way. Does it
get autodetected when you have it hooked to a scsi card? If so, which is
the best controller to use under linux. I'm not real technically inclined
to know what's compatible with which driver, but I'd like to be able to
make a backup of my system. CD is out of the question because my cd-burner
is usb, which isn't yet supported. Finally, will the jazz drive work in
linux with a laptop?
That ftape thing seemed kind of misleading. I thought the adaptec scsi
cards work in linux, or not all of them?
Thanks.