From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Gelm Subject: Re: Tape Backup Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 00:01:54 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DC750C2.65D9BB86@gelm.net> References: <1035593918.20082.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Bryan Simmons Cc: linux-newbie Hi, Bryan: CD/RW devices and media are cheaper than tape. :-| Hard drives are sometimes rather cheap also. I've seen 40 gigabyte drives for 48usd. I'm guessing that a 40G tape cartridge would be nearly 48USD. :-| HTH, Chuck Bryan Simmons wrote: > > What do you guys suggest for a tape backup for a 100GB hard disk system? > I'm planning on going XFS and want to dump partitions to tape, but I > only know about the really expensive tape backups that hold, like 25-100 > tapes. > Where can I find something that's inexpensive but holds a lot of data > and works well with Linux? > -- > Bryan Simmons > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs