From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 11:54:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA18538 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 11:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garion.hq.ferg.com (pm1-14.wmbg.widomaker.com [204.17.220.114]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA18527 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 11:54:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garion.hq.ferg.com (localhost.hq.ferg.com [127.0.0.1]) by garion.hq.ferg.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA27203; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 14:53:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 14:53:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson X-Sender: branson@garion.hq.ferg.com To: Chris Shenton cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup hardware recommendations? In-Reply-To: <199609031821.SAA07334@wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Chris Shenton wrote: > A disc failure on a friend's system recently got me paranoid. I've got > a FreeBSD system with a couple gig, a SunOS box with 2 gig, and an > Alpha which will probably have its NT lobotomized and replaced with > NetBSD. Maybe 6GB now total. > > Any recommendations for backup hardware? 8mm, DAT, 4mm? Pros and cons? > Price for media? My 150MB QIC drive is just too painful for this much > stuff. I personally have used both the 8mm and the 4mm. I feel that the 4mm is a good solution as it is now the one that most are using. Media is moderately priced and it seems very stable. 8mm works great and I have used it for many years with out any problem. The media is cheaper than 4mm.. but you cannot store as much on a single tape. DAT is bleeding edge.. and although seems to be stable.. I try to stay away from that( besides it is bloody expensive per cart.. per megs it is cheap.. but depends on how you do your backups. ) Carts are really expensive... but store ALOT of data. > > I had considered getting one of the 1GB "Jaz" drives but the media is > about $125/slice and for that I can buy a new hard drive! :-( i have looked at this too.. but it believe that it is untested for reliability and retention. For your software DEFINATELY look at amanda. It's free, It works great.. and it scales very nicely. If you need any help with setup or configuration, send me email or send to the amanda-questions list as I monitor that as well. -branson ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?