Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 13:36:41 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>, Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.homeunix.org>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up my CDs [was Re: My horror story] Message-ID: <3CDC1339.AF6DE0B7@centtech.com> References: <20020510140416.C16272-100000@mrami.homeunix.org> <20020510111431.S40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org> <20020510202733.A89576@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > the problem is that home storage has far outstripped the ability of home > > backup systems. while you can buy a hard drive that can store 60gb for > > about USD$120 these days, getting a tape drive system that can do the same > > per tape will set you back around USD$2,000, not counting the cost of the > > tapes. > > So how about buying two or more hard drives and striping/mirroring > them, eg vinum? Striping will only lessen your redundancy, but mirroring will help.. Many new motherboards have built in IDE RAID (level 0,1) now, and they work very well. Usually, I slap another drive in, and have tar's (compressed) run via cron. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology You have my continuous partial attention ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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