From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 31 13:07:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20109 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 13:07:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pobox.com (planetx-1-129.mdm.mkt.execpc.com [169.207.142.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA20101 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 13:07:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Message-Id: <199812312107.NAA20101@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 4580 invoked from network); 31 Dec 1998 15:07:06 -0600 Received: from localhost (HELO pobox.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Dec 1998 15:07:06 -0600 To: Patrick Seal cc: Marc Andre Paquin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD tree and backups In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:25:57 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 15:07:06 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , 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