On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 07:21:19AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > There are DLT drives which do 80 gig - maybe 100, although I haven't seen [ .. ]
If I'm not mistaken, the number in DLT whatever e.g. DLT80 refers to the capacity after compression, assuming 2x compression, which is typical. There is DLT20, 40, or 80. I believe DLT160 s are coming out real soon now. The best approach to backing up is usually to say no. Surprisingly little data on many machines is not recoverable or reproducable or that inportant in the first place. Next best approach is to only do it incrementally, forever. I.e. use rsync to remote copy. The only thing this doesn't give you is to go back to a point in time easily. Whatever you do, compare the cost of backing up versus the probability of losing the data times the cost of losing the data. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
