From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 10 18: 5: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FDB414D27 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:05:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from main.wgaf.net (HSE-TOR-ppp22822.sympatico.ca [209.226.71.112]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA22139 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:07:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11aUwk-0002yd-00; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 22:12:18 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why use tape for backups? (was: backup method reccommendation?) References: <19991009123827.E12733@uberhacker.org> <7tr8no$89m$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> From: Arcady Genkin Date: 10 Oct 1999 22:12:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de's message of "Mon, 11 Oct 1999 01:50:16 +0200" Message-ID: <87iu4etzlp.fsf_-_@main.wgaf.net> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all: This discussion of backups to tape reminded me that I have always wondered, why do some people chose tape as backup solution for desktop pc's. It seems to me that it's much cheaper, faster, and more reliable to just buy another hard drive and dedicate it for backups. Is there any reasons tapes are a better choice? -- Arcady Genkin "You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war -- a war for your opinions. And if your opinion is defeated, your honesty should still cry triumph over that!" (F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message