> Tape drives and tapes seem to be just too expensive. Am I out of date here?
No, I don't think so. The problem is that the low-end tape market has mostly
vanished as CDs/DVDs/disks get cheaper -- not that it should, because tape is
much more reliable -- so the cost of entry is pretty high. I u
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> If you care enough to do backups, at least care enough to be
>>> able to restore. For my home backups, I use portable drives with
>>> copies=2 or 3 and compression enabled. I don't fool with
>>> incrementals, but many people do. The failure mode I'm worried
>>> about
> >
> > If you care enough to do backups, at least care enough to be
> > able to restore. For my home backups, I use portable drives with
> > copies=2 or 3 and compression enabled. I don't fool with
> > incrementals, but many people do. The failure mode I'm worried
> > about is decay, as the dri
Richard Elling wrote:
> David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>>
>> I'm interested in the same question. I'm looking at what to use for
>> backup from my Solaris file server. I've had rather bad experiences
>> with external Firewire and USB disks, especially in performance
>> (can't be absolutely sure the
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
> I'm interested in the same question. I'm looking at what to use for
> backup from my Solaris file server. I've had rather bad experiences
> with external Firewire and USB disks, especially in performance (can't
> be absolutely sure the problem isn't with Windows th
