Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:07:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Rick Aliwalas <rra@cuc.com> Cc: Amy Wennings <amybsd@HOTMAIL.COM>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE tape backup suggestions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990811150641.5412C-100000@beelzebubba.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9908111426020.14634-100000@pikachu.oakview.cuc.com>
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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Rick Aliwalas wrote: :On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Amy Wennings wrote: : :> I know. SCSI is better. But I can't put a SCSI card in this machine. :> Who has an IDE tape drive they want to brag about? :) :> I need model recommendations. I want an 8 gig uncompressed or bigger. :> Are some tapes more reliable than others? QIC, DAT, Travan, ? :> Is tar realistic? I have about 30 gigs to backup, but only about 200 megs :> changes most months. :I'd use dump(8). If the 200 megs are in a single file system, :you could do a level 0 dump of the whole system say once a month. :In between, you could do incremental dumps of the single file system. :I don't have any experience w/ non-SCSI tape drives. The only tape drives I've seen that will do 30+ gigs native are DLT drives, and so far as I know, they are SCSI only. Jamie Bowden -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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