On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Pete Templin wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically > > I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary > > to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another > > hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper > > than a *quality* tape system? > > > I'm using a perl script to automate a series of "dump"s. I run a full > backup of /, /usr, /var, /home once a week, with an incremental every > night except full night. For space reasons, I'd rather not post the > script here, but it's free to anyone for the asking > > I have an HP/Colorado T1000 tape drive, but wouldn't recommend it. It's > quite small relative to my filesystems (400MB per tape), and I'd love to > hear what tape drives work well (i.e. easily) on a SCSI bus. It's slow, > IMO, but that doesn't matter when your backups run via cron.
I am using a Seagate (formerly Conner) TS8000 at home and a TS4000 at work - 8MB and 4MB respectively. They are really the same drive, the 8000 accepts the Travan cartridge format. These are SCSI-2 devices, and use a "wide QIC" tape. The mfr. claims up to 50MB / min. x-fer rate, but I have seen 20MB maximum, with 10-12 more the average over the ethernet. This is with 32bit (Buslogic) bus mastering controllers. The TS4000 does daily backups of a 1G Novell server, and has been in service for approx 2.5 months. I have used the 8000 to backup (tar) and restore Redhat 4.0, with no problems to report. At approx. $325 for the 4000 and $369 for the 8000, I think these are very economical choices, competitive with the hard drive alternative. The 4G cart's (1.86 non-compressed) retail for $30, the 8G for $40. ========================================================================= Looking for crack? Call 1-CIA-ARMS-4-DRUGS | "When I took bread to the (see http://www.sjmercury.com/drugs/ | poor, people said I was a Don't be too concerned, they have promised | saint. But when I asked why to investigate themselves! | they were poor, people said D.A.R.E. to abolish the CIA | I was a Communist." | John Karns | Father Helder Camera [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
