From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 11 12: 7:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from beelzebubba.sysabend.org (beelzebubba.sysabend.org [209.201.74.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463A315601 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:07:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 506A341BA; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:07:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CD649BB9; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:07:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:07:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Rick Aliwalas Cc: Amy Wennings , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE tape backup suggestions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. 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, 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 -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message