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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!dciteleport.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!torn!news.rns.net!flint.sentex.net!usenet From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: good backup solution for pci pentium box? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 18:21:15 -0500 Organization: RingZero Computing Lines: 33 Message-ID: <330E2DEB.446B9B3D@quickweb.com> References: <330B672A.41C67EA6@pnk.com> <330CD279.3A73@OntheNet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: p17.gallium.sentex.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35962 Tony Griffiths wrote: > > Curt Finch wrote: > > > > i have a PCI Dell box and am looking for a good backup solution. > > > > got this data roundabout from a friend, wondering if anyone else > > out there has had success with this? > > Yes, I've used ZIP drives on both FreeBSD and Windows NT (also DEC Unix > as well!) and they work OK on all systems. FreeBSD did generate a > message on the console every time I changed a cartridge but it was only > informational. > > The size of the drive is, as you say, 96MB (96x32x64 512 byte sectors). > Under UFS/raw, sequential data transfer is in the 800-900 KB/s range > which is quite good enough for backup (faster than most tapes!). If you > can live with the size limitation, then it is a reasonable device for > doing relatively small dumps. > > Tony If you're looking for a larger/faster alternative to the ZIP, try the JAZ from IoMega. It's 1GB, and almost as fast as a hardrive. Makes backups easy since you can just mount up the disk and cp.. Otherwise, I'd definately recommend a SCSI DAT drive. They're really a LOT cheaper per MB that the ZIP or Jaz, and are reasonably fast.. I use a native 4GB (8GB with built in hardware compression) WangDAT and "dump/rdump" with no problems. Cost about $1000 CAN ($750US) I think.. -Mark