From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 14:36:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A1937B404 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:36:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0AMaYn02146; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:36:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <05f301c19a27$42712d40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: , "Walter Betancourt" References: <4.2.2.20020110164926.00a87950@popd.betan.net> Subject: Re: Tape Drives Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:36:27 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Walter writes: > so I figured there must be a downside to using > a hard drive vs tape. There are several disadvantages to hard drives. For one thing, they are vastly more expensive, particularly as you keep larger and larger volumes of backups. For another, they don't help you at all if the machine is destroyed, since you can't keep them offsite. They also consume power and generate heat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message