Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 07:34:44 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup solutions Message-ID: <3CADA7F4.3125276A@centtech.com> References: <001901c1dc59$c9f4fac0$0301a8c0@mike>
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My opinion on the matter differs depending on the use. For example, for a box that you don't have access to, hard disk backups are a good solution. They are also a good solution to save money (since a cheap IDE hard drive can hold a lot of data). With tape backups (or removable media in general), you have the added ability of taking the backup off site, so if your machine gets melted in a fire, you won't lose both. The other thing is, with a few tapes, you can keep a LOT of backed up material, with incrementals separate, whereas it takes more hard drive space to do that. In addition, you are somewhat limited to the amount of hard drive space you can have in a computer (assuming you were doing IDE, because SCSI would be cheaper to just buy a tape drive)- for instance, you can have 4 IDE devices, plus another IDE card (with 4 more devices), so you are limited to 8 drives (minus one for the drive you are backing up, and maybe minus one for a cd-rom/r/rw/etc), so possibly 6 drives for backup. Now, that can mean a lot of data backed up, but calculate the cost, and shop for a tape drive that is that price, plus some media, and there you are back at tape media again. So, all in all, for small, quick and easy, single machine backups, a hard drive is sufficient, but for anything other than that, I would say you would want to use tape. Eric Mike Loiterman wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Just wondering how feel about tape backups vs backing up to a hard > drive. I suppose this is the stuff of "relgious wars" but I just > wanted to get a bit of feedback. Thanks. > > Mike Loiterman > mike@ascendency.net > PGP Key 0xD1B9D18E > - -- > Please do not carbon copy me on list replies. I'll get my copy from > the list. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 7.0.4 > Comment: Message digitally signed by Mike Loiterman > > iQA/AwUBPK0m/GjZbUnRudGOEQJpFACcCrDoTxyIW04uB6nOmCIQiY3xmhUAnRKs > GMQpA2n+pR6cNkL2iSYZCuBr > =OorQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology You have my continuous partial attention ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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