From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 14:39:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cosrel1.hp.com (cosrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B6D014E42 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:39:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from postal.sr.hp.com (root@postal.sr.hp.com [15.4.46.173]) by cosrel1.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id PAA27710; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:39:06 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com (root@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by postal.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id OAA27400; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:38:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by mina.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id OAA13065; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:38:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199910112138.OAA13065@mina.sr.hp.com> To: David Scheidt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why use tape for backups? (was: backup method reccommendation?) Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:52:42 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:38:41 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Scheidt wrote: > I run my overnight, so it doesn't matter for me if they take 4 hours or 4 > minutes. True. I should have said that speed is a primarily an issue if your backups don't fit onto a single CDROM. If they don't, speed is important because you have to babysit the computer to feed it disks. > > 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? Good point. However, if you have an older system that can't boot from a CDROM .... -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message