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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in1.uu.net!news.u.washington.edu!tzs From: tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Backing up the whole 9 yards...??? Date: 27 Aug 1995 11:20:13 GMT Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of ~'95 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <41pkdd$pr7@nntp5.u.washington.edu> References: <DDHIzE.25r@agora.rdrop.com> <id.SCRM1.LNA@nmti.com> <41ieh0$l0r@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: stein1.u.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-User: tzs Note that CD-R drives are supposed to drop to under $1000 by the end of the year. CD-R is an attractive media for backup: 1. Media is about $7 for a 600 meg disc. 2. It's durable. 3. Easy access to the backed up data. Combine this with a tape drive that can do ~500 MB uncompressed, and you'd have a nice system. Do daily backups to tape. When the daily backup sets get too large to deal with (supply your own definition here--mine would be "takes more than one tape"), make a CD and start over. --Tim Smith ps: there's a new R/W optical drive coming out soon that also looks very nice. 4.6 GB per cartridge, 19 ms average access time, $199/cartridge. The drive is supposed to sell for around $1600.