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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Subject: Re: I give up
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:08:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <461A9D42.9000008@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704091549.51805.gene.heskett@gmail.com>

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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-09 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-09 14:07 I give up Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 14:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-09 15:37   ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 16:49     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-09 17:03       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-09 18:36         ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 19:38         ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 21:35           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-09 22:22             ` Dave Dillow
2007-04-10  1:27               ` Dave Jones
2007-04-10  1:40                 ` Dave Dillow
2007-04-10  2:01                   ` Dave Jones
2007-04-10  7:12                   ` Olaf Hering
2007-04-10  7:51                     ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-10  8:19                       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-10 16:08                       ` Olaf Hering
2007-04-10 17:29                         ` David Lang
2007-04-10 16:14                       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-11  3:54                         ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-11 15:39                           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-11 15:51                             ` John Stoffel
2007-04-11 19:29                               ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-11 20:27                                 ` John Stoffel
2007-04-11 21:16                                   ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-11 21:26                                     ` John Stoffel
2007-04-11 19:27                             ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-10  7:53                     ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-10 12:24                       ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-04-10 20:45                         ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-10 19:05                       ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-11  4:01                         ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-11 14:46                           ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-11 15:07                             ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-11 15:12                             ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-04-11 16:43                               ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-11 17:03                                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-10  3:47                 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-10  3:41             ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 17:11     ` John Stoffel
2007-04-09 19:49       ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 20:08         ` John Stoffel
2007-04-09 20:11           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-09 20:08         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-04-09 20:32           ` Ralf Baechle
2007-04-09 20:44             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-09 20:51               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-09 20:33           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-09 20:47             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-10  3:34           ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-10  3:38             ` John Stoffel
2007-04-10  6:50             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-10  6:59             ` CaT
2007-04-10 17:52             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-11  3:57               ` Gene Heskett

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