From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 23 18: 5:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BEB9150EB for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 18:05:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (peche [192.168.0.3]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA68490 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 21:05:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) X-Sender: chris@mail.monochrome.org Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 21:03:26 -0500 To: FreeBSD Questions list From: Chris Hill Subject: Backup - opinions wanted Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I need to start doing backups. To that end, I'd like people's opinions on which hardware I should buy. Presumably some sort of tape drive, but which one(s) do you like/hate? Why? The ideal system would use reasonably-priced and widely-available media, and would not itself be horrifically expensive (like DLT). It also would not make too much noise when idle. (As opposed to the external SCSI tape drive I had years ago, whose fan screamed like a banshee whenever the drive was powered on.) The system in question is running 3.1R and has a Tekram DC390F SCSI card. It will need to back up itself, another FreeBSD box (3.2R) and a Macintosh (8.1). Thanks in advance for your thoughts! -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [place witty saying here] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message