From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 2 18:21:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org (12-253-177-2.client.attbi.com [12.253.177.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6FD737B41B for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:20:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.22.42.2] (peace.hippie.lan [172.22.42.2]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g332Ki428176 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:20:45 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 19:20:43 -0700 Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive recommendations? From: Ian To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3CAA3639.2030401@mac.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a 4.5-RELEASE system and have just taken possession of an > AHA-2940 ultra scsi card: I think it's time I took a serious look > at backing stuff up. Someone gave me a tape drive that turned out > to be an floppy tape unit, unsupported under FreeBSD. So I'm > looking to do it right this time. Any either recommended units or > brands and formats? > > I don't have but a few Gb of stuff to back up, 10 at the outside > for now. The most any machine will take up is 2-3 Gb. Boxes I'd > like to have backed up range from Mac OS 9/X to FreeBSD and NetBSD. > -- > Paul Beard You didn't give any guidance about what you're willing to spend. For backing up "about 10 gb" I'd recommend a DDS-3 DAT drive, if you've got $500-ish to sink into it. A DDS-3 drive costs a lot more than a DDS-2, but it's so much faster that it's well worth it if you're serious about backups. The fact that the tapes hold 12gb (before compression) rather than DDS-2's 4gb sounds about right for your needs, too. Now for a bit of unorthodoxy: since you mentioned MacOS, have a look at Retrospect from Dantz software for backing up. There's betaware of the OS X version available at www.dantz.com. I've been using Retrospect for backups since 1993, it beats anything I've ever worked with in the past 30 years. (But I haven't used the OSX version yet, I'm not sure if it's NFS-savvy.) -- Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message