Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:11:59 -0400 From: "Gray, David" <David_W_Gray@tvratings.com> To: "'FreeBSD Chat List'" <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Backups and such Message-ID: <0BC5187E59E2D411A81000508BB0956901E33CBB@nmrusdunsx6.nielsenmedia.com>
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There's lots of suggestions, but I don't see any clear winners in this discussion. Amanda looks nice, but it can't handle backups across split volumes. Yuck. My bigger partitions are 3X the size of the biggest tape I have. And I don't have a whole lot of disk space to use for buffering, either. I have several 15G filesystems (in use, that is), and I don't have much free space anywhere. A multivolume dump to tape works, and is the current solution - but its slow over the network - the speed of the tape and the speed of the net don't match well, causing the tape to go to stop-start mode. Amanda gets around that by using a local disk as the buffer (we do the same here at work, where our databases are in the 100's of Gigs. But here they can afford mutliple tape robot silos...) Oh yes, that reminds me, tape is also damned expensive. Especially compared to the $/Gig of the current IDE drives. The typical home user isn't going to see the cost effectiveness of backups, at this rate. (There were some cheap tape drives on E-bay recently - nearly fainted when I priced the media. To back up my 20G drive (once) I would need to spend 80% of its cost, in media.) We need something better. Even recordable DVDs are too small, we need 100G or better, removeable storage, at an inexpensive price. Its tempting to say it can be real slow - but - it can't - we need to be able to do backups in a reasonable amount of time. Is there anything that can beat the $/Mb of hard disks? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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