From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 17: 9:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9438437BB93 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:09:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-71-188.dialup.hiwaay.net [216.180.71.188]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e5308uG18750; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 19:08:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA33290; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:43:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200006022343.SAA33290@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Hank Wethington" Cc: "BSD" From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Tape backup recommendation In-reply-to: Message from "Hank Wethington" of "Fri, 02 Jun 2000 01:05:46 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 18:43:35 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Hank Wethington" writes: > Greetings, > > I'm looking to purchase a tape backup system for my BSD3.4 box. I'd like to > be able to back up a 18 GB drive. I've looked at TRAVAN and at DAT. Besides > the speeds should I be worried about anything? > > As price is a major concern, the Travan 20 GB SCSI drives look great, but > has anyone had any issues using these in a BSD box? Both the Seagate and HP > drives does not say that BSD is supported (but then again, most things that > are don't say they are). Is anyone using these? Any other recommendations? DDS-2 has gotten quite affordable these days. Often a new good DDS-2 drive with hardware compression can be found for under $100. But that will only do an honest 4G on a $6 tape, more if the compression works for you. DDS-3's are about $600 for an uncompressed 12G on $15 tape. DDS-4's are shipping. Another company or two appeared in the past year or so offering tremendous capacity on inexpensive proprietary tape with an inexpensive drive. And advertised, "the data on this 60G tape survived boiling in water..." They didn't implement their device anything like a SCSI tape, sorta reminded me of a WinModem. Haven't heard anything more of it in quite a while, not that I've been listening. When thinking about the cost of a backup system be sure to consider both the hardware and media costs. A good rule of thumb starting point is the price of the drive, software, and 10 tapes. Once you have a tape drive for a few years you'll have lots more than 10 tapes. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message