Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:46:03 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: patl@phoenix.volant.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why use tape for backups? (was: backup method reccommendation?) Message-ID: <ML-3.4.939617163.2060.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <19991011120854.U78191@freebie.lemis.com>
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On 10-Oct-99 at 19:39, Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.com) wrote: > On Sunday, 10 October 1999 at 19:21:12 -0700, patl@phoenix.volant.org > wrote: > On 10-Oct-99 at 18:54, Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.com) wrote: > >>> A second disk gets you only one generation of backup. And if > >>> something catastrophic happens during the backup, it may be > >>> corrupted too leaving you with -no- backup. > >> > >> Well, that can happen with tapes, too. > > > > 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. This is where the much cheaper media costs for tapes comes in. Few people will be willing to multuply their disk costs by 10 or more just to have a reasonable backup cycle. > I've used Exabyte and DDS. I've had many problems with each. This seems to be a classic case where YMMV. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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