From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 13:53:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5818815AC7 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:52:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 64674 invoked from network); 11 Oct 1999 20:52:42 -0000 Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.41) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 11 Oct 1999 20:52:42 -0000 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:52:42 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Darryl Okahata Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why use tape for backups? (was: backup method reccommendation?) In-Reply-To: <199910111944.MAA11982@mina.sr.hp.com> 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 Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Darryl Okahata wrote: > FreeBSD Bob wrote: > > > What are the pros and cons of doing backups on CD's? > > * Small capacity. Even with compression, CD's don't hold much. Of > course, if you don't have a lot to back up, this isn't an issue. > However, if the data won't fit onto a single CD, plan on babysitting > the computer and feeding it disks. I do incrementals of /etc, /sys and /home. Periodically, I make snapshots of my CVS repository. Restoral is install from latest release CD, restore my CVS repository, cvsup, restore /sys, build a kernel, reboot, make world, reboot, restore /home. This works, and takes a couple hours. > > * Speed is "decent", but not great (however, it can be great if you take I run my overnight, so it doesn't matter for me if they take 4 hours or 4 minutes. > > What's wrong with mounting? It's easy to do. You can make a > bootable FreeBSD floppy with the CDROM driver on it (I think the fixit If you are burning CDs, why not make them bootable? David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message