From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 29 07:00:24 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA24205 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 07:00:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA24190 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 07:00:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22170; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:01:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199901291501.KAA22170@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Tape drive In-Reply-To: <19990129175337.D8473@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jan 29, 99 05:53:37 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:01:36 -0500 (EST) Cc: BlackshR@fleishman.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote, > DDS and Exabyte are just plain too unreliable, though they're getting > better. Greg, is this personal or anecdotal experience? Or can you point to some references that bear this conclusion out? We use Exabyte a _lot_ here at work and hearing this from you concerns me. Also, when you say they are unreliable, are you talking about the media (properly written tapes fail), the transfer (tapes do not get written/read properly), or the hardware (the drives are in the shop to much)? > For daily backups, you might consider a small number of large > IDE drives. They'll be fractionally more expensive in the short term, > but cheaper in the long run, and they'll certainly back up faster. The problem I have with this solution is that it seems that you are putting all your eggs in one basket. If that backup fails catastrophically, you lose _all_ your backups at once. Seems that you would have to backup your backups occasionally. So, you're still stuck with doing tapes or some other media for the backup^2. There probably is a procedure to get around this problem (or I may be seeing a problem where there is not one), what is the prefered procedure for using IDE drives for backup? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message