From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 10 11:36:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52ABE37B404 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 11:36:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4AIagK22785; Fri, 10 May 2002 13:36:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4AIaf719644; Fri, 10 May 2002 13:36:41 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3CDC1339.AF6DE0B7@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 13:36:41 -0500 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: "f.johan.beisser" , Marc Ramirez , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up my CDs [was Re: My horror story] References: <20020510140416.C16272-100000@mrami.homeunix.org> <20020510111431.S40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org> <20020510202733.A89576@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > 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. > > So how about buying two or more hard drives and striping/mirroring > them, eg vinum? Striping will only lessen your redundancy, but mirroring will help.. Many new motherboards have built in IDE RAID (level 0,1) now, and they work very well. Usually, I slap another drive in, and have tar's (compressed) run via cron. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology You have my continuous partial attention ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message