Hi Jorge, G T Smith wrote:
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
Having initially used a Tape backup unit I now view tape based backup does have a problems as an approach for a home user.
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....Backups will be too expensive when tape drive nears 'toasting' ie obsolete
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An alternative often recommended here is to use an external USB caddy drive with rsync. I personally have reservations about this approach, but see no reason why it should not be a valid option to consider.
I agree wholeheartedly with GT. I currently have about 65Gb on openSUSE 10.2 that I backup. I was also thinking of going the tape backup route when I was also put onto the external drive idea. I now have a 250GB USB IDE disk caddy USB, with an ext3 filesystem, which I backup to nightly using rsync. The script I am using was developed by Andre, who I have Cc'ed. I believe development is ongoing on the script and he will be able to release the source to you, as well as instructions on how to get it working. The disk caddy I am using is one by SNT as tey were recommended to me especially for Linux compatibility. http://www.snt.com.tw/ They are so good that I am considering getting a SATA disk caddy from them as well to replace the IDE one I have, when it dies. Hope it helps Regards Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org