[nycbug-talk] Seeking tape backup unit

[Bjorn Nelson]

On Mar 1, 2005, at 10:22 PM, Jim Brown wrote:

> * Jerry B. Altzman <jbaltz at omnipod.com> [2005-03-01 11:22]:
>> On 2/28/2005 10:08 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>>>> How much do you need to put on a tape daily?  4GB? 10GB?  35GB?
>>> 10GB min
>>
>> If 10GB is your MINIMUM daily backup, you should also look at
>> throughput. 10GB can take a lo-o-o-o-ng time. Longer than you think.
>>
>> For what it's worth, you can get a stack of 20GB IDE drives for 
>> cheaper
>> than the cost of most tapes, get one of them-there outboard FireWire
>> and/or USB2 boxes, and do a disk to disk backup.
>>
>>> Jim B.
>
>
> I saw something at CompUSA called a "Rev Drive"- basically a
> type of external cartridge drive that had a real disk as the
> cartridge.  USB 2.0 - supposed to be fast.  Large capacity.
>
> Anyone ever use one of these?  Does it look like a USB drive
> to BSD?  That might work very well for me.

You might just want to compress your backup and put it on a dvd.  This 
would give you a static image you could store.

-Bjorn