Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:04:19 -0700 From: "Brian M. Kincaid" <bmk@adsl-64-174-159-18.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: bmk@adsl-64-174-159-18.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net Subject: Backups on IDE disks Message-ID: <200209112004.g8BK4JtZ001693@adsl-64-174-159-18.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net>
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This is not really a question, more of a comment. I have pretty much abandoned CD backups in favor of backups to a dedicated IDE disk drive. You just need too many CD's, and the writing process is SLOW. With a dedicated IDE drive, all you do is keep backing up onto it until the drive is full, and then remove it from the machine and put in another one. The full drive goes into the file cabinet or to my safe deposit box as offline storage. These internal IDE drives are not really "removable", but on my Dell box the drive is mounted with plastic spring clips. That eliminates the problem of dropping the tiny little screws into computer. You do need to have some extra spring clips and screws to mount the new drive, or you need to swap the clips from your full drive, but you can do that work on your desk top without messing with the inside of your computer. You also need to partition and label a brand-new drive, but the process is very simple. I have a dual-boot system with NTFS and FAT32 dos partitions, and I have been backing up everything using flexbackup from the ports collection. It's not great, but it works, and since it's in PERL, you can see what it is doing and fix it if necessary. I just bought an 80GB Maxtor IDE disk drive for about a dollar per gigabyte. I think that's competitive with cost of a pack of CD's plus the amortized cost of a CD burner. Brian -- Brian M. Kincaid PGP Key: http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x33656401 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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