From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 3 14: 9:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378E837B6CC for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 14:09:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12QyLN-000MkP-00; Fri, 03 Mar 2000 20:06:37 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12QyLN-00045a-00; Fri, 03 Mar 2000 20:06:37 +0000 Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:06:37 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: "Ash, Uriel" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZIP drive Message-ID: <20000303200637.G16946@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ash, Uriel wrote: > I want to buy a tape/zip/RW CD-ROM drive for backing up my computer > data from my business. I have a Dell Dimension PIII, with a 20 Gig > HDD. Forecasted amount of data should be in the high megabytes. Are > there any suggestions for a backup system that is preferable i.e > relatively easy to configure and easy to use?? A SCSI tape drive would probably be the best supported, and most convenient (I've heard IDE tape drives aren't that good). I've just bought an HP CR-RW drive, and it works fine, but the disadvantage is that you have to make an ISO image before burning the CD[0], and of course if your system doesn't write data fast enough the CD is screwed. [0] I think. I'm assuming you can't just write raw data to it, and be able to read it back. Thinking about it, I don't see why not... -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message