Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:30:29 -0500 From: "Craig Reyenga" <craig@craig.afraid.org> To: "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware: backup tape reliability Message-ID: <002d01c40881$9fdcaf20$0200000a@redline> References: <16466.1922.530743.83821@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert, Are DVDs an option for them? growisofs works great here, using the LG GSA-4081B 8x DVD writer. I don't see how a DVD (or a CD) would fail under the conditions you outlined, and 4.38GiB per disc is pretty good. I hope this helps. -Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 1:54 PM Subject: OT: hardware: backup tape reliability > > I have a friend who's trying to implement a back-up regime, > but running into media issues. > Specifically: they live in an area with extremely high > temperature+humidity (90-95 F/32-35 C; 90+% hum.) and climate > conditioning is not an option. They need to backup critical data > files (code base is not an issue) and have tried floppies, ZIP > drives, and CDs ... all of which have proven to have a very short > life span. > They're considering trying tape backup; but before spending > hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a system they'd like some > assurance this will work. > (One way to do this would be a hot swap disk ... but that's an > escalation we'd like to avoid if possible.) > > I'd like to hear from people who have Been There and Solved > That. I'll also take pointers articles that talk about tested > solutions. > > Thanks in advance. > > > Robert Huff > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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