From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 10 19:58:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EEE1A14EB5 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 19:58:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 5585 invoked from network); 11 Oct 1999 02:58:51 -0000 Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.42) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 11 Oct 1999 02:58:51 -0000 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:58:51 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Greg Lehey Cc: patl@phoenix.volant.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why use tape for backups? (was: backup method reccommendation?) In-Reply-To: <19991011120854.U78191@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Yes, if you are foolish enough to reuse a single backup tape instead > > of at least switching back and forth between two. (Or, better yet, > > having a real backup cycle among multiple tapes.) > > The same argumentation applies to disks. It is really expensive to do lots of generation of backups to tape. > > I've used Exabyte and DDS. I've had many problems with each. I have used 9 track ,QIC, Exabyte, DDS, and DLT. I find 9 track and DLT to be the most reliable. I have more DLT tape drive failures than media failures. And they are fast, and hold lots. They aren't cheap though. This is why at home, I backup to CD-RW, which hasn't had any failures yet. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message