Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:13:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: Rick Aliwalas <rra@cuc.com>, Amy Wennings <amybsd@HOTMAIL.COM>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE tape backup suggestions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908111212450.65117-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908111209390.65117-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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> > : > > :> 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. > > Onstream are 30 GB plus. And there's an IDE version. Let me qualify this- this is 30GB after compression. Newer drives will be higher density. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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