From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 17 23:22:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A9737B8E2 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:22:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA20772; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 02:15:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200006180615.CAA20772@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Artem Koutchine" , "The Clark Family" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 02:22:10 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Backup tools/strategy Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 15:15:39 -0700 (PDT), The Clark Family wrote: >One of the BSD related websites had a feature about backing up to >CDR. There are so many useful/fun things to do with a CDR/RW drive CDRs are too small to be used as a primary backup. >that tape is less and less attractive all the time. In my opinion the best backup solutions right now are Hard Drives and Rsync to a remote server. IDEs are dirt cheap these days. In particular 5400rpm ones. One can get those special enclosures to make them removable. Pricewise two IDEs are probably about the same it would cost to buy a tape drive and tapes. Rsync to a remote location would work best for a well connected site which has files that don't change often. There is also the issue of having a remote site where to backup to. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message