Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:20:26 +0200 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why use tape for backups? Message-ID: <7tsdla$s25$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <87iu4etzlp.fsf_-_@main.wgaf.net> <ML-3.4.939605615.2767.patl@asimov> <19991011112417.S78191@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: > This used to be the correct answer. I'm no longer sure it is. > Certainly I think that the current generation of tape units is *much* > less reliable than hard disk. My not-so-current QIC-1000 drive (Wangtek 51000HT) is rock solid. Okay, at home it only has to suffer weekly backups or so. But considering that I have never cleaned it... I would expect current generation QIC drives (Tandberg only I'm afraid) and DLTs to be reasonably robust, too. Haven't heard anything to the contrary yet. > The media are cheaper, but when I consider the number of DDS > drives I wore out doing regular daily backups, I think that backing > up to disk might have been cheaper. One DDS drive every two years, right? How many cycles for each tape? 10? 20 if you're reckless? -- 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
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