Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:22:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM> To: Paul Traina <pst@Shockwave.COM> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do *YOU* do backups? Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9511291515.P2785-0100000@kryten.atinc.com> In-Reply-To: <199511291921.LAA00370@precipice.shockwave.com>
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On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, Paul Traina wrote: > I scrogged my root partition the other day, and while it was pretty easy for > me to recover it, I had the opportunity to reflect on the fact that I haven't > been doing proper backups...so I went out and picked up a 2g tape drive. which 2gb tape drive....i am also in the market. > What I'm curious about is how people are chosing to do backups these days. > I'm an old BSD fossil, so I've been using dump, which has its good sides > and bad sides. Dump is patently stupid about determining things like the > size of your dump media and the optimal blocksize to keep your tapes streaming > because it was originally designed for 9 track drives. dump....dump....dump.....read elizabeth zwicky's paper on torture testing backup programs. dump's defaults are dump^Hb but the damn thing just keeps working. the paper is at ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix dont remember which directory ;(( Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
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