From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 10 11:22:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1705E37B412 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 11:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4AIMNS69985; Fri, 10 May 2002 11:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:22:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Marc Ramirez Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backing up my CDs [was Re: My horror story] In-Reply-To: <20020510140416.C16272-100000@mrami.homeunix.org> Message-ID: <20020510111431.S40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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