From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 3:31:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B47E14DB4 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 03:31:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id MAA19733 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:31:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA28455 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:09:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Why use tape for backups? Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:09:42 +0200 Message-ID: <7tsd16$roq$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <19991009123827.E12733@uberhacker.org> <7tr8no$89m$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <87iu4etzlp.fsf_-_@main.wgaf.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Arcady Genkin wrote: > 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 few years ago, the power supply in one of my machines blew. Might have sent a spike down the 12V line. Whatever the electrical details, it killed both hard disks (and the tape drive, though not the CD-ROM). You may not want to use tape, but you certainly want to use removable media for backup. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message