Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2114 mails)

[Hans Witvliet <hwit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 17:21 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> 
> Do anyone of you use any tape drive for personal backup? I personally use a 
> 2nd internal hard-drive where I perform nightly backups but twice a year I 
> backup to offline media (DVD-R DL media)...but right now I'm reaching 100 GB 
> of data...that's a bunch of data to burn!  (even if it's dual layer media).  
> I know there are HD and Blu-ray drives but they're too expensive. I think I 
> can get a tape-drive for much mess.
> 
> I just would like to know if anyone recommends any particular tape-drive and 
> also what software do you use with it (just plain tar?)  
> 
> Thanks!
> Jorge

Hi Jorge,

Even for tape-drives, 100GB is a huge chunk to swallow ;-)
I would recommend a external USB-drive.
Currently, 500GB drives go for about 100 Euro's
Tape drive capable of storing this amount will be  a magnitude more
expensive...

HW
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