backup media advice

[Alex Snow]

My old tape drive took 2 hours to backup a 1 gig hd.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: backup media advice


> I  use a cd burner for backups of small systems, media is
> cheap and if you back up data only with compression you get a lot onto a
cd.
> Tapes are better for larger systems but require more money for media
> and are slower to access. The average ide burner works well
> under Linux these days and I have found the liteon ones
> to work rather nicely. I have an
> LTN32123S which is a 40x32x12 writer and it goes like a charm.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:13:26PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> > I would like to know what forms of backup people have found most
effective
> > as I have decided it is time to invest in something to do this. I have a
> > 20gb hard drive but am presently only using about 2gb. I want to be able
> > to recover from a total disaster but also want to be able to get back
> > files or groups of files in case of a partial corruption or accidental
> > deletion.
> > The options I know about are:  cdrom, tape, another hard disk, or zip
> > drive.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Cheryl
> >
> >
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