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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:07:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        Rick Aliwalas <rra@cuc.com>
Cc:        Amy Wennings <amybsd@HOTMAIL.COM>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IDE tape backup suggestions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990811150641.5412C-100000@beelzebubba.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9908111426020.14634-100000@pikachu.oakview.cuc.com>

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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Rick Aliwalas wrote:

: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.

The only tape drives I've seen that will do 30+ gigs native are DLT
drives, and so far as I know, they are SCSI only.

Jamie Bowden

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