Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:52:42 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why use tape for backups? (was: backup method reccommendation?) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991011154243.46065B-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <199910111944.MAA11982@mina.sr.hp.com>
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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Darryl Okahata wrote: > FreeBSD Bob <fbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> 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
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