on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:20:03PM -0500, Courtney Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings ! > > I'm finding that as my drives are growing my old DATs are keeping me > hopping trying to cram it all in.
Realize that there's a lot of your system you don't need to archive.
I'd stick to /home, /etc, /usr/local, /boot, /root, and bits of /var.
For more on the subject, see:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html
> Of course if cost were irrelevant I wouldn't ask the question.
>
> Anyway, considering both media and drive what's the
> consensus/experience ?
DAT/DDS is prolly your best nexus of cost, performance, capacity, and
convenience. My last price check was Pricewatch.com, October of last
year. I'm seeing 20GB drives for < US$300, 20/40 GB DDS4 for ~$1000,
and an 40/80 GB DLT drive for about $1700 in a local advertising
circular. Before you compare these to equivalent storage, recall that
media cost a fraction (though not as insignificant as previously) of the
cost of disk storage, and are far more durable. Looks like about $15-20
for DDS4 media.
> If there's an option that is dollar cost-competitive with DAT that I'm
> unaware of, please enlighten me.
Possibly DVD-R. Comperable capacity.
Peace.
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