From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 12:38:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA18308 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:38:40 -0800 Received: from precipice.shockwave.com (precipice.shockwave.com [171.69.108.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA18302 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:38:35 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by precipice.shockwave.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA00559; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:37:21 -0800 Message-Id: <199511292037.MAA00559@precipice.shockwave.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do *YOU* do backups? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:22:46 EST." Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:36:05 -0800 From: Paul Traina Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: how do *YOU* do backups? On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, Paul Traina wrote: > I scrogged my root partition the other day, and while it was pretty easy fo >>r > me to recover it, I had the opportunity to reflect on the fact that I have >>n'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. conner scsi-2, "4000" series (4gb compressed, 2gb native), $515 at frys, it uses qic-3080 tapes, not DAT tapes, so the tapes are ~$30 each instead of $15/each, but that was ok, since I usually only rotate through 4 tapes at a time. 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 ;(( will do, she's an old friend of mine, so I can ask her if I can't find it. 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 where are you moving to?