Re: suggest a backup media

1998-07-14 Thread Debian Mailing List
How about a scsi Jaz Drive i find them to be the best backup media ... because ... it is not as sensitive as burning CDRs and to me not as expensive too and pretty portable and easy data retrieval too. kim0 On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, the lone gunman wrote: I'm unsure of what backup media

Re: suggest a backup media

1998-07-14 Thread servis
If you haven't made your decision yet look at the Seagate Tapestore 8G (TR-4). You can find them for under $200 (check pricewatch.com) and they usually come with a tape. They come in ide or scsi internal/external. They are fast and effective. I have one and love it. Brian | On Sat, 27 Jun

Re: suggest a backup media

1998-06-28 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Hi! I remember reading a comparison between backuping technics in PCmag or Byte, in the previous 4 months. Check their older issues. The article did a good job. sasha. the lone gunman wrote: I'm unsure of what backup media I should go with for my Linux system. I have a 4 gig harddrive. I'm

Re: suggest a backup media

1998-06-28 Thread the lone gunman
On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 12:50:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CDR has definite advantages. I had a SCSI 2x running fine on a 386 40mhz with 8mb of RAM and a 1gig IDE drive. If I generated the iso image on the box it was a little slow, so I nfs exported the directory with rw and

suggest a backup media

1998-06-27 Thread the lone gunman
I'm unsure of what backup media I should go with for my Linux system. I have a 4 gig harddrive. I'm thinking about CD-R or Travan-4 tape backup. I'm pulling hairs, though, trying to determine which is better (for me, anyway). I'd like to go with DAT, but the drives are too expensive. There are