Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:42:42 -0700 From: Stacy Millions <stacy@millions.ca> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Message-ID: <3E5A91D2.70403@millions.ca> In-Reply-To: <3E5A8C67.7070805@mitre.org> References: <200302240959.03513.wes@softweyr.com> <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> <20030224205811.GD85610@hal9000.halplant.com> <20030224210152.GC26172@pir.net> <3E5A8C67.7070805@mitre.org>
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Jason Andresen wrote: > Peter Radcliffe wrote: > >> Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> 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? > In a previous life, I worked at a place were they expected to be able to restore files after 25 years. We had quite a collection of tape drives. Just before I left, we had started a data conversion project to convert the old tapes into newer media. It was getting too hard to maintain the old tape drivers (and computers, operating systems and backup software) that had been used over the last 25 years. My biggest problem with using disk space for backups is that you always have some pressing need for more disk space (but its just temporary :-) and your backup disk looks really appealing. -stacy -- If they keep lowering education standards and raising the price of gasoline, there are going to be a lot of stupid people walking around. Stacy Millions stacy@millions.ca Millions Consulting Limited To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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