Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:51:45 +0100 From: Gareth McCaughan <G.J.McCaughan@dpmms.cam.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: non-SCSI backup devices Message-ID: <E0xKtKz-00012h-00@jay.dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
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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
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