Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 15:14:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Bill Hamilton <bhamil@cmpu.net>, rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Disks for backup (was: SCSI Tape Drive Recommendations?) Message-ID: <19981224151445.Q12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3681B524.5E76C288@cmpu.net>; from Bill Hamilton on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 09:29:40PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.981223191024.26066A-100000@dsinw.com> <3681B524.5E76C288@cmpu.net>
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On Wednesday, 23 December 1998 at 21:29:40 -0600, Bill Hamilton wrote: > rick hamell wrote: >> >>> Related question: Is the Iomega Jaz supported under FreeBSD? >>> Wouldn't that be cheaper than most tape drives? >>> (Granted, you only have 2gb per cartidge and they are more costly that >>> tape.) >> >> Except for the fact the they're not much more reliable either. :( >> I personally have never even used one, but from what I understand they're >> as picky to setup as the Zip drives are. I think that for the money, >> another hard drive is still the best, most reliable way to go. > > Except that you wouldn't take it off-site easily. Why not? Buy a so-called ``mobile rack'', a frame with a removable drawer in which you insert the disk. They're worth buying for the funny pseudo-English instruction manual alone. > Assuming that doesn't bother me ... > would one just not mount it until you wanted to backup or restore? > Would one use tar or something else to backup? Just curious. A good question. tar has some advantages, including highest storage density, but random access isn't one of them, so it might be worth using it as a file system. You might combine the two (keep multiple backups of individual file systems as compressed tar archives, for example). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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