From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 11 12:13:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8DFD15531 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:13:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA07005; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:13:16 -0700 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:13:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Jamie Bowden Cc: Rick Aliwalas , Amy Wennings , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE tape backup suggestions In-Reply-To: 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 > > : > > :> 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