From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 23 21:07:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA08658 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 21:07:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08625 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 21:07:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA10621; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 15:14:44 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id PAA15062; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 15:14:45 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981224151445.Q12346@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 15:14:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Bill Hamilton , rick hamell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Disks for backup (was: SCSI Tape Drive Recommendations?) References: <3681B524.5E76C288@cmpu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3681B524.5E76C288@cmpu.net>; from Bill Hamilton on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 09:29:40PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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