Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:06:37 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: "Ash, Uriel" <uriel.ash@honeywell.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZIP drive Message-ID: <20000303200637.G16946@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <F388E1BD1E11D211BD850008C7F4A5DE02530086@TEBEX106> References: <F388E1BD1E11D211BD850008C7F4A5DE02530086@TEBEX106>
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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
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