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From: jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de (Jochen Kunz)
Subject: [TUHS] Irwin 285
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:11:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100121181147.97ae525c.jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48239d391001210407t7633e9d1p692be7de51ccb9dd@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:07:07 +0300
Sergey Lapin <slapinid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, that's so bad, so I will really need to buy some vintage SCSI
> tape drive to fullfill my backup needs.
If you really want tape backup: Get a DLT drive. This is the most
reliable tape technology I came across. Next to it are the big QIC
drives that use DC6xxx or DC9xxx media. (Don't confuse this with the
MiniQIC stuff that was used for floppy streamers.) This would be a
proper backup for an old Unix box. (DC600 tapes where a common
distribution media for Unix software in the pre-CDROM era.)

Avoid helical scan like DAT or Exabyte 8 mm.

Hmmm. Well. 9-track tape is even more reliable then DLT. But how much
data do you get on a 2400' tape at 6250 bpi? (Answer left to the reader
as an exercise. ;-) )

Or, as Jason mentioned: Consider disk backup on at least two redundant
disks. (Does not need to be RAID. Just copy all data to two indepentent
disks.)

Store at least one backup off site...

Forget CD-R and DVD-R.
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tschüß,
       Jochen

Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-21 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-21 10:26 Sergey Lapin
2010-01-21 10:51 ` Brantley Coile
2010-01-21 11:19 ` Jochen Kunz
2010-01-21 11:32   ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-21 12:07     ` Sergey Lapin
2010-01-21 12:37       ` Jason Stevens
2010-01-21 13:02         ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-21 16:50           ` Jochen Kunz
2010-01-21 17:11       ` Jochen Kunz [this message]
2010-01-21 17:37         ` M. Warner Losh
2010-01-21 17:41         ` Sergey Lapin
2010-01-21 19:00           ` Jochen Kunz
2010-01-21 19:10             ` Al Kossow
2010-01-21 19:36               ` Jochen Kunz
2010-01-21 19:41               ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-21 19:45             ` John Cowan
2010-01-21 18:59         ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-21 19:48           ` Jochen Kunz
2010-01-21 19:56             ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-21 19:58               ` Larry McVoy
2010-01-21 20:00                 ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-21 20:11                   ` Larry McVoy
2010-01-21 20:26                     ` Jason Stevens
2010-01-21 20:41                       ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-21 20:44                         ` Larry McVoy
2010-01-21 21:00                           ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-21 21:01                             ` Larry McVoy
2010-01-21 21:36                               ` lyricalnanoha
2010-01-21 22:15                                 ` Larry McVoy
2010-01-21 22:22                                   ` M. Warner Losh
2010-01-22  9:14                           ` Jochen Kunz
2010-01-22  9:34                             ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-22 10:15                               ` Jochen Kunz
2010-01-22 10:46                                 ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-22 11:06                                   ` Jochen Kunz
2010-01-22 11:12                                     ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-22 15:38                                 ` Larry McVoy
2010-01-22 16:52                                   ` Jochen Kunz
2010-01-22 16:55                                   ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-21 20:46                         ` Jason Stevens
2010-01-21 22:15                         ` Aaron J. Grier
2010-01-21 22:57                           ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-21 20:36                     ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-21 20:44                       ` Corey Lindsly
2010-01-21 21:45                         ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-22  0:36                         ` [TUHS] Backup software (was: Irwin 285) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-01-22  0:48                           ` Jason Stevens
2010-01-28 20:27                           ` Brad Spencer
2010-02-12 17:03                             ` Tim Bradshaw
2010-02-15  1:19                             ` [TUHS] dump(8) compatibility (was: Backup software (was: Irwin 285)) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-02-15  1:24                               ` Jason Stevens
2010-02-15  1:30                               ` [TUHS] dump(8) compatibility M. Warner Losh
2010-02-15  2:27                                 ` Larry McVoy
2010-02-15  5:05                                   ` Warner Losh
2010-02-15  5:18                                     ` Jason Stevens
2010-01-21 20:33                   ` [TUHS] Irwin 285 Jochen Kunz
2010-01-21 20:44                     ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-21 20:47                       ` Larry McVoy
2010-01-22  9:23                       ` Jochen Kunz
2010-01-22  9:32                         ` Wilko Bulte
2010-01-22  0:38                 ` [TUHS] Tape backups? (was: Irwin 285) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-01-21 20:18               ` [TUHS] Irwin 285 Jochen Kunz
2010-01-21 12:05 ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2010-01-21 12:12   ` Sergey Lapin

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