Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:52:21 -0500 From: Carol Deihl <carol@tinker.com> To: FreeBSD ISP Mailing list <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Autoloading Tape Drives Message-ID: <3797F505.9C753B02@tinker.com>
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Brian Scott wrote: > > Can anyone recommend any autoloading tape drives that they've had > success with? I have about 15 gigs that need backed up nightly. A variation that you might consider is to do your nightly backups to a large disk. Multiple backups from multiple machines can run simultaneously, unlike a tape. Then, if you really need to save the backups on a tape, you can run the backup disk off to a tape during the day, when there is a person available to deal with the inevitable problems. Also, it's *much* easier to restore from the backup disk than from a tape (speaking from the "oops I really didn't intend to delete that file" experience!). We've been doing this for about 3 years now. We use bru as our backup software, and either ftp or ssh the backups across our network to the backup machine. For our purposes, we don't even need the tape at all, as we keep about 2 weeks of backups online. Anything we really need to keep for a long time, we burn to a cd-rom. Carol -- Carol Deihl - carol@tinker.com Shrier and Deihl - Unix Network Admin and Internet Software Development http://www.tinker.com/ - Tinker Internet Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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