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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!terra.net!miata From: matt@momentum.com (Matt Landau) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: JAZ drives or T-4000 Travan drives for backing up NT/FreeBSD networks? Date: Wed, 04 Sep 96 16:30:58 GMT Organization: Momentum Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <50kaq6$j1m@dalesbred.terra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: a9.momentum.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #2 I'm looking for a reasonably low-cost and (more importantly) low-effort way to back up a small network of NT and Unix machines, probably around 20 GB of total disk space, but less than 1 GB per night of incremental changes. Two of the options I've been thinking about are a JAZ drive, which has the advantage that in an emergency you can boot from it, carry around a copy of your development and production environment on it, etc., or a T-4000 Travan tape unit of some sort, which has the advantage that you can back up 8 GB of stuff on a single (compressed) tape unattended. Has anyone used either of these approaches? Are there drivers for these devices available for either NT 4.0 or FreeBSD? Any other words of sage advice on how to tackle this problem? While we're at it, I could use some of the Collected Wisdom of the Net(TM) on the topic of backup software. Anyone know of anything that will actually do incremental backups on a mixed Unix/NT network? The Unix machines will probably be (mostly) FreeBSD, with perhaps a Linux box and a Solaris box here or there. -- Matt Landau Momentum, Inc. matt@momentum.com Waiting for a flash of enlightenment in all this blood and thunder.