From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Nov 4 10: 3: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F8F37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:03:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from spider.netmails.net (dsl-65-189-239-65.telocity.com [65.189.239.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 920AD43E4A for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:03:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from subscr@spider.netmails.net) Received: (qmail 81574 invoked by uid 1014); 4 Nov 2002 18:02:34 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:02:34 -0600 From: Hari Bhaskaran To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Recommended backup solution for a 1U rackmount Message-ID: <20021104120234.A81551@spider.netmails.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I am trying to find a reasonable backup (hardware) solution for a 1U rack-mount machine. I couldn't find any slim tape drives (that are not SCSI). Here are my options. Can anyone give more info whether these are feasible? 1. Buy an external hard-disk (20+ GB or so). Do USB external storage work on FreeBSD? Plus I should be able to connect and disconnect without reboot. 2. Put a slim CD-R drive on the machine. 3. Put a slim DVD-R ($$) on the machine. 4. rsync/ftp/scp the data out elsewhere. CD-R has the drawback that I can't fit more than 650 MB on a disk. Copying the data out would mean I would be paying double for the bandwidth (for all the data that came in - emails). Any help is appreciated. -- Hari Bhaskaran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message