From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 17 13: 2:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mbox.ttm.bg (mbox.ttm.bg [195.230.0.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC8214CE6 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 13:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ian@bulinfo.net) Received: from cserv.oksys.bg (ipp-8-076-sofia.ttm.bg [195.230.8.76] (may be forged)) by mbox.ttm.bg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA10426; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 22:59:04 +0300 Received: from bulinfo.net (ian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cserv.oksys.bg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA50580; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 22:58:33 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ian@bulinfo.net) Message-ID: <3790E068.E736978D@bulinfo.net> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 22:58:32 +0300 From: Iani Brankov Organization: ok systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francisco Reyes Cc: Freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Recomended tapes form HP? References: <199907171258.IAA23968@arutam.inch.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francisco Reyes wrote: > > 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 wouldn't change it against anything. It's my old stainless gun :) I simply need additional bigger one. > >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. Yes. I suppose it's the best solution in my case, but our budget is too small for a raid :( Thanks very much for sharing your experience. --iani To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message