Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 08:38:40 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive recommendations? Message-ID: <20020403083840.A6462@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <3CAB122D.C789F3BD@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:31:10AM -0500 References: <3CAA3639.2030401@mac.com> <20020402152915.A8109@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3CAB122D.C789F3BD@mitre.org>
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--DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:31:10AM -0500, Jason Andresen wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > > In that size range you might look for a refirb DDS-2 drive (4GB native). > > I'm seeing them at tapeserv.com[0] for $160. You could probably do > > better then that on e-bay. You can get TRAVAN drives for less, but > > media is generally more expensive so if you make regular backups (I run > > backups every weekday night) you'll soon be paying more then you would > > have with a more expensive drive. >=20 > If you're like most people and don't have anywhere offsite to store your > tapes (because you are doing this at home on a limited budget for=20 > instance), then you might be better off just buying a large (80-120 GB) > HD and backing up onto that. For the cost of a tape drive you can buy=20 > two and mirror them. The drives won't give you the limitless media > potental of the tape drives, but you won't have to juggle 30 tapes > around to backup 120GB either... They'll be faster to boot. That solution works for some, but was useless for me. I've got too many machines to make that easy and I want multiple levels of automated backups (that's saved my butt several times). IMO, not system is too small to be a good target for amanda. :) -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8qzAPXY6L6fI4GtQRAg/VAJ9i1B1AkoTqYZFiJ5aTbV8GTG5UjACg1hdP LJFFn2SRJL6Bk0l45rtgPwc= =Iyw4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DocE+STaALJfprDB-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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