Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 15:07:06 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> Cc: Marc Andre Paquin <map@interresa.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD tree and backups Message-ID: <199812312107.NAA20101@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:25:57 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812311219250.532-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812311219250.532-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>, Patri ck Seal wrote: } With the price of Hard Drives as they are now, I would just get a nice big } juicy 8-16gig HD to backup with. It would be a lot cheaper (faster and relia } ble) } than getting a tape drive. But not as flexible. With tapes, you can do a full backup periodically and keep them "forever", and you can later go back and retrieve a file from, say, a year ago. With a total of 16G of disk space for backups, you can retain a much smaller amount. Using a disk like that also does nothing to protect against a disk controller which goes haywire and randomly writes junk to your disks - including the one you've got your backups on. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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