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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!nickel.ucs.indiana.edu!pi From: pi@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert) Subject: backing up system Message-ID: <CoGqJ3.Irs@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: nickel.ucs.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 16:16:14 GMT Lines: 17 Hi there... I've got a 300 meg FreeBSD-1.1 BETA system up and I was looking for some advice on the cheapest way to reliably back it up. I originally was thinking of backing up my system on floppies, but once I started looking into buying 200+ floppies I began to wonder if there was a cheaper way. In particular, I read in a book from a few years ago that it was possible for PC users to hook their computer up to a VCR as a cheap way to do backups. I also have a friend that tells me a QIC-40 tape drive is definitely the cheapest way to go nowadays... if so what brand of tape drive would work best with *bsd? Thanks in advance for any advice/comments/suggestions. :-) -- /----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Raymond L. Gilbert | "...the present rule in computing the circle's | | pi@indiana.edu | area is entirely wrong..." | | IUB Dept. of Physics | - Bill No. 246, Indiana State Legislature, 1897|