On Monday 09 April 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>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
I haven't seen any 200GB for $55 yet, more like $129 & maybe a rebate at
Circuit City. We don't have a Fry's around here.
--
Cheers, Gene
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