Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 08:59:13 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <freyes@inch.com> To: "Iani Brankov" <ian@bulinfo.net>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Recomended tapes form HP? Message-ID: <199907171258.IAA23968@arutam.inch.com>
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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 01:16:26 +0300, Iani Brankov wrote: >I have to buy a tape drive for a FreeBSD box. >I'm using an old HP DAT drive and it works great. Why do you need to change it? >I would like to know does anybody use HP tape drives and how reliably do they >work with FreeBSD? >HP SureStore Travan drives (SCSI) I have not worked with HP yet. I have a Conner (which was bought by Seagate I believe) SCSI. Have had it for a few years and it has worked fine. The main thing I would like to stress is that after looking at your budget and buying whichever drive you can afford (that workds with FreeBSD) the most important thing is to have a good tape rotation and to verify your backups AND do restores from them every once in a while. I have 8 tapes in my rotation and use 6 of them for Windows and 2 for FreeBSD. I used to have FreeBSD just to learn, but now I am setting up two boxes for production and just purchased two more SCSI travan tapes (one new, one from an auction at Ebay). I will add a couple of tapes to the FreeBSD rotation, plus will use the 3 boxes to backup each other. The best backup is to have your data (securily) in different places/medias. For example small configuration files (i.e. ppp setup, .login, .logout....) I keep on floppies in addition to the tape backup. Basically anything small which I may need to restore often I keep in floppies too. If your data is critical you may also want to consider getting a Raid controller and do Raid 5. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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