From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 18 3:53:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED87E37B5DC for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 03:53:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from desktop.freebsd.org (surry-pool-136.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.136] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA32063 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 20:54:56 +1000 From: Danny To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Good Tape Drive for FreeBSD? Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:57:31 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00061921021203.00632@desktop.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG - hello I am planning of implementing a new backup strategy for FreeBSD - The old one is where I get the users to save any important work to there home directory (/home/username) then I mannually tar the files and copy it to /somewhere/backup/ - I am thinking of also copying the contents of /somewhere/backup to some kind of IDE DAT Tape Drive (bleieve thats what they call it) so I can store this bacup off site.. Question 1) Is there some kind of good DAT Tape Drive suitable for freeBSD 3.3? Looking forward to your feedbackl. dannyh dannyh@idx.com.au -- ------------------------------------------------------------ You are not authorized to use my email address for spam or any purpose whatsoever. Remove my email address from your databases immediately and do not attempt to email me in any way. ------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message