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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:34:44 -0400 From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org> Subject: Re: I give up On Monday 09 April 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> For those of you with big tapes that can hold a complete dump of every >> partition (and partitions is the only way dump works in case some have >> forgotten), go ahead and use dump/restore. Tar quite simply, allows >> one to break his backup files down into small enough pieces that a >> tape drive that's only 20% of the system drives size is totally >> usable. I ran dds2 tapes for a long time, and it wasn't at all >> unusual to have amanda fill those to the 95% or better mark every >> night for a week running, without ever hitting EOT. > >Wow, people still use tapes for backup? > >With current hard drive prices (200GB @ US$55, 500GB @ US$120) you can >just keep buying hard drives :) > >Surely tape price/GB is higher than hard drive price/GB... > > Jeff I haven't seen any 200GB for $55 yet, more like $129 & maybe a rebate at Circuit City. We don't have a Fry's around here. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) You will be called upon to help a friend in trouble. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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