From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 30 14:36:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25996 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:36:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xcf.berkeley.edu (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA25989 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:36:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nordwick@xcf.berkeley.edu) Received: (qmail 27186 invoked by uid 27268); 30 Apr 1998 21:37:41 -0000 Date: 30 Apr 1998 21:37:41 -0000 Message-ID: <19980430213741.27185.qmail@xcf.berkeley.edu> From: Jason Nordwick MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Time to get a backup device, suggestions ? X-Mailer: VM 6.32 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It is now time for me to get a backup device with a good amount of storage (I have an 8 gig drive largest of 3). I have never used/owned a tape drive, so does anybody have any suggestions ? I am also a student so I dont have a ton of money to spend on it, but have some. Also when I see tape sizes I see things like 4G compresses 2G native, which size should I look at ? Is the compression done by the hardware or by the win32 drivers supplied ? SO would FBSD suport the compressions rates ? thanks jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message