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#! rnews 2004 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news.pixi.com!news.dod.hawaii.gov!paf-news.hqpacaf.af.mil!wrdiss1.robins.af.mil!gatech!csulb.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!xfer.kren.nm.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!129.33.24.22!fox.almaden.ibm.com!garlic.com!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!news.mira.net.au!n ews.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: good backup solution for pci pentium box? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:38:49 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 19 Message-ID: <330CD279.3A73@OntheNet.com.au> References: <330B672A.41C67EA6@pnk.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Curt Finch <curt@pnk.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35914 Curt Finch wrote: > > i have a PCI Dell box and am looking for a good backup solution. > > got this data roundabout from a friend, wondering if anyone else > out there has had success with this? Yes, I've used ZIP drives on both FreeBSD and Windows NT (also DEC Unix as well!) and they work OK on all systems. FreeBSD did generate a message on the console every time I changed a cartridge but it was only informational. The size of the drive is, as you say, 96MB (96x32x64 512 byte sectors). Under UFS/raw, sequential data transfer is in the 800-900 KB/s range which is quite good enough for backup (faster than most tapes!). If you can live with the size limitation, then it is a reasonable device for doing relatively small dumps. Tony