Re: I give up

[Jeff Garzik]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> For those of you with big tapes that can hold a complete dump of every 
> partition (and partitions is the only way dump works in case some have 
> forgotten), go ahead and use dump/restore.  Tar quite simply, allows one 
> to break his backup files down into small enough pieces that a tape drive 
> that's only 20% of the system drives size is totally usable.  I ran dds2 
> tapes for a long time, and it wasn't at all unusual to have amanda fill 
> those to the 95% or better mark every night for a week running, without 
> ever hitting EOT.


Wow, people still use tapes for backup?

With current hard drive prices (200GB @ US$55, 500GB @ US$120) you can 
just keep buying hard drives :)

Surely tape price/GB is higher than hard drive price/GB...

	Jeff


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