From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 6:42:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu [152.1.207.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0584E14EC0 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 06:42:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu) Received: (from fbsdbob@localhost) by weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA60227; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:47:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fbsdbob) From: FreeBSD Bob Message-Id: <199910111347.JAA60227@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Subject: Re: Why use tape for backups? (was: backup method reccommendation?) In-Reply-To: from David Scheidt at "Oct 10, 1999 09:58:51 pm" To: dscheidt@enteract.com (David Scheidt) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:47:48 -0400 (EDT) Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), patl@phoenix.volant.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have used 9 track ,QIC, Exabyte, DDS, and DLT. I find 9 track > and DLT to be the most reliable. I have more DLT tape drive failures > than media failures. And they are fast, and hold lots. They aren't > cheap though. This is why at home, I backup to CD-RW, which hasn't had any > failures yet. > > David Scheidt Dave, and others listening..... What are the pros and cons of doing backups on CD's? I have been doing archiving on CD's for some months, and that seems to be working, but, it is a real hassle to go through the motions of tarring/compressing/isoing to write to a cd.... more than should be necessary. What is a reasonable approach to backups via CD's? They are getting cheap enough that it seems like it might be a workable solution in some instances. Are there any good ways to use CD's as ``quasi tape devices'' rather than mountable devices? Something like dumping to a file, then dding the file directly to the CDdevice is what I would like to do. Then if a recovery is needed, restore directly from the CD, like tape. Is that possible? Thanks Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message