From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 10 18:33:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36CF2150AB for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:33:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 11aULL-0004pu-00; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:33:39 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA26927; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:33:35 -0700 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:33:35 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: Why use tape for backups? (was: backup method reccommendation?) To: Arcady Genkin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <87iu4etzlp.fsf_-_@main.wgaf.net> 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 10-Oct-99 at 18:05, Arcady Genkin (a.genkin@utoronto.ca) wrote: > 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? A second disk gets you only one generation of backup. And if something catastrophic happens during the backup, it may be corrupted too leaving you with -no- backup. If you want multiple generations; and/or have many disks or systems to backup, you can't beat the price per bit or reliability of tape. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message