Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:57:36 -0500 From: Walter Betancourt <walt@betan.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape drives Message-ID: <4.2.2.20020110145533.00a8a9a0@popd.betan.net> In-Reply-To: <20020110134256.D10240@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <4.2.2.20020110110919.00c08140@popd.betan.net> <4.2.2.20020110110919.00c08140@popd.betan.net>
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David, thanks for the insight, My first thought was to use a hard drive for backup, but I see the 'big' boys all using tape so I figured there must be a downside to using a hard drive vs tape. At 01:42 PM 1/10/02 -0600, you wrote: >On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:12:10AM -0500, Walter Betancourt wrote: > > Anyone have good/bad experience with tape drives ? > >Good ones are expensive. I've never been disappointed with >Seagate/Conner/Archive SCSI DDS (4mm) drives. > > > I'm looking to get a tape drive for backup of 20gb server > >DDS-4, AIT, and DLT are candidates. > >You might consider purchase of cheap 30 or 40G ATA drives and mount in >quickie removable plastic trays which seem to be under $20 each. Not >terribly impractical when a 35G DLT tape's price is compared. Dell >Optiplex PII-300's are coming off 3 year leases in droves at the moment. >Not hard to find a clean one for $120. Put FreeBSD on it. Mount one of >those removable ATA trays. Connect to the same network as your server. >Backup to the removable HD. > >When 5400 RPM 40G HD's hit $115 I bought one for work and installed it >in my PowerMac G4-400. Retrospect runs every night backing up my Mac's >other HD's and (4) Windows NT systems. One nice thing about the HD is >that there is much less wear and tear than with tape drives. Never have >to clean the HD's heads. > >-- >David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net >===================================================================== >The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its >capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. Walt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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