From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 11 11:32:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from nick.cendant.com (nick.cendant.com [198.245.183.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71FCF155CF for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:32:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rra@cuc.com) Received: from mailhub.cuc.com (stratford.cuc.com [206.28.153.114]) by nick.cendant.com (8.8.5/8.9.2+) with ESMTP id OAA01433; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:31:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:29:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Aliwalas X-Sender: rra@pikachu.oakview.cuc.com To: Amy Wennings Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE tape backup suggestions In-Reply-To: <19990811061024.36253.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Amy Wennings wrote: > I know. SCSI is better. But I can't put a SCSI card in this machine. > > Who has an IDE tape drive they want to brag about? :) > > I need model recommendations. I want an 8 gig uncompressed or bigger. > > Are some tapes more reliable than others? QIC, DAT, Travan, ? > > Is tar realistic? I have about 30 gigs to backup, but only about 200 megs > changes most months. I'd use dump(8). If the 200 megs are in a single file system, you could do a level 0 dump of the whole system say once a month. In between, you could do incremental dumps of the single file system. I don't have any experience w/ non-SCSI tape drives. > > > _______________________________________________________________ > Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message