From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 11:42:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23679155CF for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:42:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 11akPC-0004Gw-00; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:42:42 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA27977; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:42:38 -0700 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:42:38 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: Why use tape for backups? (was: backup method reccommendation?) To: FreeBSD Bob Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199910111347.JAA60227@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Oct-99 at 06:43, FreeBSD Bob (fbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu) wrote: > > I have used 9 track ,QIC, Exabyte, DDS, and DLT. I find 9 track > > and DLT to be the most reliable. I have more DLT tape drive failures > > than media failures. And they are fast, and hold lots. They aren't > > cheap though. This is why at home, I backup to CD-RW, which hasn't had > > any failures yet. > > > > David Scheidt > > Dave, and others listening..... > > What are the pros and cons of doing backups on CD's? > > I have been doing archiving on CD's for some months, and that seems > to be working, but, it is a real hassle to go through the motions of > tarring/compressing/isoing to write to a cd.... more than should be > necessary. > > What is a reasonable approach to backups via CD's? They are getting > cheap enough that it seems like it might be a workable solution in > some instances. The biggest disadvantage I can think of is capacity. It takes a lot of CD-ROMS to back up a even single 9Gb drive; and compression doesn't cut that number all that much. Also I'm not aware of any reasonably priced CD writers with auto-load capabilities to make automated backups feasable. (Of course, that could be because I haven't been looking for them...) -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message