From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 13 15:51:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA00553 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:51:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from emu.dpmms.cam.ac.uk (exim@emu.dpmms.cam.ac.uk [131.111.24.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA00548 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:51:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from G.J.McCaughan@dpmms.cam.ac.uk) Received: from jay.dpmms.cam.ac.uk [131.111.24.22] (exim) by emu.dpmms.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xKtKm-0003tp-00; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:51:32 +0100 Received: from gjm11 by jay.dpmms.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xKtKz-00012h-00; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:51:45 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: non-SCSI backup devices Message-Id: From: Gareth McCaughan Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:51:45 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I need a backup device for my FreeBSD box. The data on it aren't *immensely* valuable, so I don't want to be spending huge sums; and I don't (at present) have a SCSI controller. I think my filesystems total about 3Gb or so, but only a small fraction of that changes much. I don't really care how fast or slow it is. Recommendations? Am I right in getting the impression that most of the startlingly cheap recent backup devices aren't supported by FreeBSD? (This is not a complaint; I presume the reason is that they involve nasty proprietary protocols or something.) Is the Right Thing to forget about doing it on the cheap and buy a SCSI card and a DAT drive? I don't generally read -questions, so please reply to me and not just to the list. (If this is the Wrong Thing to say, let me know so that I can subscribe...) Many thanks in advance. i -- Gareth McCaughan gjm11@dpmms.cam.ac.uk