From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 18:47:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A8814C4E for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 18:47:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA32203; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:17:34 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:17:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why use tape for backups? Message-ID: <19991012111734.N78191@freebie.lemis.com> References: <87iu4etzlp.fsf_-_@main.wgaf.net> <19991011112417.S78191@freebie.lemis.com> <7tsdla$s25$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <7tsdla$s25$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 11 October 1999 at 12:20:26 +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Greg Lehey 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