Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:22:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.homeunix.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backing up my CDs [was Re: My horror story] Message-ID: <20020510111431.S40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <20020510140416.C16272-100000@mrami.homeunix.org>
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On Fri, 10 May 2002, Marc Ramirez wrote: > As someone who is archiving his CD collection, what do people use out > there for backing up 200 gig of crap? the problem is that home storage has far outstripped the ability of home backup systems. while you can buy a hard drive that can store 60gb for about USD$120 these days, getting a tape drive system that can do the same per tape will set you back around USD$2,000, not counting the cost of the tapes. anyhow, take a look at http://www.backupcentral.com/toc-hardware.html for a good list of back systems, and their cost. the other thing to remember is that backups are very time consuming, and very tedious to do often, or well. there's a fairly large thread on this back a couple months ago. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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