From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 15:43:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1261637B7AC for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:43:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e6JMhXX52433; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:44:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:43:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Hank Wethington Cc: BSD Subject: RE: backing up In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Hank Wethington wrote: > We expect about 5-8 gb of back up data on a full back-up. Unfortunately, the > site is over 3.5 hours away, so removing tapes or anything else is not > really an option except for maybe quarterly. That is actually why I'm > thinking along the lines of using a hard drive. Failure rates are lower, > transfer speeds are faster, and data retrieval is much quicker. > > Is it possible to back up to a hard drive? > It's perfectly possible and offers you a greater variety of backup options too. You can still use dump(8) with an archive on an HD, local or remote, just as you'd do with a tape. hth -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message