From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 24 13:19:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F00D137B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:19:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7C843F3F for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:19:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h1OLJhc10762 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:19:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h1OLJfo09344 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:19:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from mm112324-2k.mitre.org (128.29.3.65) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 1245450; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:19:34 -0500 Message-ID: <3E5A8C67.7070805@mitre.org> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:19:35 -0500 From: Jason Andresen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives References: <200302240959.03513.wes@softweyr.com> <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> <20030224205811.GD85610@hal9000.halplant.com> <20030224210152.GC26172@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <20030224210152.GC26172@pir.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Radcliffe wrote: > Andrew J Caines probably said: > >>At the rate ATA drives are going up in size and down in price, tape seems >>to be less and less of a cost-effective solution, both for drives and >>media. > > > If you only want one or two copies of things and be pretty careful > about moving those copies to an offsite location. > > Personally I like having a long run of archived backups (I have > backups going back about 4 years at this point), doing that with disk > is not really cost effective. Just out of curiousity, how many of your users come back after 4 years asking for their deleted files? -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message