From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 15:13:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC25816A41F for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:13:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lcapps@cteresource.org) Received: from cteresource.org (mail.cteresource.org [206.136.187.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2C843D48 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:13:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lcapps@cteresource.org) Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cteresource.org (8.11.7+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id j9HFDMQ07614 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:13:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 192.168.1.129 ([192.168.1.129] helo=localhost) by ASSP-nospam ; 17 Oct 05 15:13:22 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:16:21 -0400 From: Lee Capps To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051017151621.GC860@topper.cteresource.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200510141520.21566.danstemporaryaccount@yahoo.ca> <004901c5d102$ef822230$c901a8c0@workdog> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004901c5d102$ef822230$c901a8c0@workdog> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:13:25 -0000 At 14:04 Fri 14 Oct 2005, Gayn Winters wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > > > My boss has asked me to try to find a tape-backup solution > > for our largely > > FreeBSD network of machines and I'm not having a lot of luck, > > so I was hoping > > for some enlightend pointers from the list. > > > > We need the following features: > > 20GB+ capacity > > USB 2.0 > > External > > < $600CDN > > > > Unfortunately, I've only been able to find two drives that fit our > > requirements, one from Ceterance: > > http://www.certance.com/products/travan/travan40/STT6401U2-SST > > the other from HP who claims that theirs only works with > > HP-UX. Does anyone > > know if (a) either of those units play nice with FreeBSD? or > > (b) if there > > are other tape backup solutions available? > > > > Thanks for any insight. > > Have you considered an external USB2.0 hard drive? I love my Maxtor One > Touch. On nextag.com I see a 300GB for $218 USD at Newegg. It may be > worth rethinking your backup and archiving strategies. (I use removable > hard drives for archiving, but that's another story...) Ditto the recommendation of hard drives. I suppose there are times when you need tape (archiving?), but hard drives are very cheap now. When our tape drive died, We went to two 250GB Seagate drives which we rotate weekly. -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center