Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:08:10 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Mike Loiterman <mike@ascendency.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backup solutions Message-ID: <20020404203229.K96787-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <001901c1dc59$c9f4fac0$0301a8c0@mike>
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Mike Loiterman wrote: > Just wondering how feel about tape backups vs backing up to a hard > drive. I suppose this is the stuff of "relgious wars" but I just > wanted to get a bit of feedback. Thanks. my own preference is tape. tape.. 1. tape transfers between machines, and usually OSs fairly well. 2. tar(1) is usually very transferable between various flavours of UNIX. 3. tape, and tape drives, tend to be more reliable, and even if one part of them is damaged, you can usually recover data with little effort. hard disks.. 1. difficult to transfer between OSs. 2. difficult to transfer between machines 3. damage prone (head crashes, bad sectors as they get older etc). 4. even in redundant environments, the potential for dataloss is very high. 5. it's *very difficult* and *very expensive* to recover data from a damaged hard drive. hrm. i don't think this is really a religious debate. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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