From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 30 9:42:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wanlogistics.net (mail.wanlogistics.net [63.209.114.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F7437B401 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:42:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from bilver.wjv.com (spdsl-033.wanlogistics.net [63.209.115.33]) by mail.wanlogistics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA34905; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:42:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bill@wjv.com) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9UHg7L55966; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:42:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bill) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:42:07 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion To: Mark Radabaugh - Amplex Cc: Fabrizio Ravazzini , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dat Backups Message-ID: <20011030124206.D52637@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: <20011030171916.5346.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mark@amplex.net on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 12:36:07PM -0500 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 12:36:07PM -0500, Mark Radabaugh - Amplex thus sprach: > I'm partial to DDS-2 drives myself - fast, reliable, inexpensive, > cheap tapes ($6.00 US). Others will likely have a different > opinion. http://www.pacificdata.com has always treated me well. I get mine from what is now www.tape.com. Great people whom I've known for years. I most often get DDS2 that has been used one time for quality control in drive manufacture. I've gotten mixed packages with some tapes even saying Seagate. > As far as software AMANDA is highly recommended. Documentation is > http://www.amanda.org. There is also a pretty good book on Unix > backup: http://www.backupcentral.com/thebook.html That is a bit of overkill if you arent' backing up a network of machines, isn't it. I have also installed commercial software on a couple of remote machines I maintain [no admins at the far side]. A product I called Lone-Tar that does a backup, rewinds the tapes and does a bit-level compare to make sure the tape matches the hd exactly. It's a nice product for a commercial business as it gives them warm-fuzzy feeling and they know they can get vendor support if a large Cicso router falls on my head and wipes me out. :-) Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message