From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 6:40: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk-systems.com (hawk-systems.com [161.58.152.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8876E37B699 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 06:39:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from server0 (cr1032856-a.pr1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.146.66]) by hawk-systems.com (8.8.8) id HAA41542 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:37:57 -0700 (MST) From: "Dave VanAuken" To: Subject: Poor mans backup solution required Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:46:38 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Have a couple of low end servers... 10GB IDE drives. Wish to offer backup as an extra bit of value, but these particular systems (nor the data for that matter) are really worth installing tape, upgrading to SCSI, or installing IDE RAID. Any recommendations for perhaps tar-ing the directory tree to a second IDE drive each night, or other solutions involving the cost of adding another $100 IDE drive. thanks Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message