Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:54:58 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: OT: hardware: backup tape reliability Message-ID: <16466.1922.530743.83821@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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I have a friend who's trying to implement a back-up regime, but running into media issues. Specifically: they live in an area with extremely high temperature+humidity (90-95 F/32-35 C; 90+% hum.) and climate conditioning is not an option. They need to backup critical data files (code base is not an issue) and have tried floppies, ZIP drives, and CDs ... all of which have proven to have a very short life span. They're considering trying tape backup; but before spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a system they'd like some assurance this will work. (One way to do this would be a hot swap disk ... but that's an escalation we'd like to avoid if possible.) I'd like to hear from people who have Been There and Solved That. I'll also take pointers articles that talk about tested solutions. Thanks in advance. Robert Huff
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