Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:08:34 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: I give up |
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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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