Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:47:32 +1000 From: Andrew <mynet@uq.net.au> To: bob olbrich <rjob@gulftel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup device recommendations Message-ID: <3744F374.F11B5C45@uq.net.au> References: <3744AC5A.C295ECDC@gulftel.com>
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You can buy 13 gig IDE hard drives for next to nothing now. these are great for backing up on especialy if you put them in another box. If you need off site backup then nothing beats a cd writer for convinience as you can restore data using any CD rom drive and do it quickly . Also you know your data is safe because it cant be overwriten. You could back everything up on CD's and then just write the changes to a cd using mulitsession or packet writing. Cheap tape drives seams to be nothing but trouble and when you want to restore something it either takes hours or you dont get it back at all. The high end SCSI tape backup units such as the DAT drives seam to be good though but rather expensive. Hope this helps Andrew bob olbrich wrote: > Hello, > > As a new home user of FreeBSD, I have begun to survey the > available backup devices. I have some simple questions. > > 1) Are there any tape drives that support both Win98 and FreeBSD? > My old Iomega Ditto is slow with WIN98. I'd like to replace it. > > 2) Are there any inexpensive alternatives such as CD-RW or > removables (ZIP, JAZ, etc). These drives seem to be in > the $400 and up range ( including media). > > 3) What about network backup? Is this overkill for a home > environment? > > I've got a total of about 5GB to backup with no SCSI devices. > > Thanks, > > Bob Olbrich rjob@gulftel.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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