Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:17:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why use tape for backups? Message-ID: <19991012111734.N78191@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <7tsdla$s25$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <87iu4etzlp.fsf_-_@main.wgaf.net> <ML-3.4.939605615.2767.patl@asimov> <19991011112417.S78191@freebie.lemis.com> <7tsdla$s25$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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On Monday, 11 October 1999 at 12:20:26 +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: >> The media are cheaper, but when I consider the number of DDS >> drives I wore out doing regular daily backups, I think that backing >> up to disk might have been cheaper. > > One DDS drive every two years, right? About 18 months. > How many cycles for each tape? 10? 20 if you're reckless? I must be reckless. I've only had a few DDS tapes wear out, after about 100 passes. If somebody could convince me that DDS-3 is more reliable, I might go for it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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