From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 11:57:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gate.tellurian.net (gate.tellurian.net [216.182.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3594637B404 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:57:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from walt99 (unverified [216.182.21.33]) by gate.tellurian.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.6) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:57:48 -0500 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20020110145533.00a8a9a0@popd.betan.net> X-Sender: walterbetanc@popd.betan.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:57:36 -0500 To: David Kelly From: Walter Betancourt Subject: Re: Tape drives Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020110134256.D10240@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <4.2.2.20020110110919.00c08140@popd.betan.net> <4.2.2.20020110110919.00c08140@popd.betan.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David, thanks for the insight, My first thought was to use a hard drive for backup, but I see the 'big' boys all using tape so I figured there must be a downside to using a hard drive vs tape. At 01:42 PM 1/10/02 -0600, you wrote: >On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:12:10AM -0500, Walter Betancourt wrote: > > Anyone have good/bad experience with tape drives ? > >Good ones are expensive. I've never been disappointed with >Seagate/Conner/Archive SCSI DDS (4mm) drives. > > > I'm looking to get a tape drive for backup of 20gb server > >DDS-4, AIT, and DLT are candidates. > >You might consider purchase of cheap 30 or 40G ATA drives and mount in >quickie removable plastic trays which seem to be under $20 each. Not >terribly impractical when a 35G DLT tape's price is compared. Dell >Optiplex PII-300's are coming off 3 year leases in droves at the moment. >Not hard to find a clean one for $120. Put FreeBSD on it. Mount one of >those removable ATA trays. Connect to the same network as your server. >Backup to the removable HD. > >When 5400 RPM 40G HD's hit $115 I bought one for work and installed it >in my PowerMac G4-400. Retrospect runs every night backing up my Mac's >other HD's and (4) Windows NT systems. One nice thing about the HD is >that there is much less wear and tear than with tape drives. Never have >to clean the HD's heads. > >-- >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. Walt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message