Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:42:07 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bill@wjv.com> To: Mark Radabaugh - Amplex <mark@amplex.net> Cc: Fabrizio Ravazzini <freefabri@yahoo.it>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dat Backups Message-ID: <20011030124206.D52637@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <GCEEKJFMELAOEDFALPMNMEJODLAA.mark@amplex.net>; from mark@amplex.net on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 12:36:07PM -0500 References: <20011030171916.5346.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> <GCEEKJFMELAOEDFALPMNMEJODLAA.mark@amplex.net>
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 12:36:07PM -0500, Mark Radabaugh - Amplex thus sprach: > I'm partial to DDS-2 drives myself - fast, reliable, inexpensive, > cheap tapes ($6.00 US). Others will likely have a different > opinion. http://www.pacificdata.com has always treated me well. I get mine from what is now www.tape.com. Great people whom I've known for years. I most often get DDS2 that has been used one time for quality control in drive manufacture. I've gotten mixed packages with some tapes even saying Seagate. > As far as software AMANDA is highly recommended. Documentation is > http://www.amanda.org. There is also a pretty good book on Unix > backup: http://www.backupcentral.com/thebook.html That is a bit of overkill if you arent' backing up a network of machines, isn't it. I have also installed commercial software on a couple of remote machines I maintain [no admins at the far side]. A product I called Lone-Tar that does a backup, rewinds the tapes and does a bit-level compare to make sure the tape matches the hd exactly. It's a nice product for a commercial business as it gives them warm-fuzzy feeling and they know they can get vendor support if a large Cicso router falls on my head and wipes me out. :-) Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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