From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030327AbXDJDer (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:34:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932933AbXDJDer (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:34:47 -0400 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]:37696 "EHLO vms046pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932900AbXDJDeq (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:34:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:34:44 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: I give up In-reply-to: <461A9D42.9000008@garzik.org> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jeff Garzik , John Stoffel Message-id: <200704092334.44883.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Organization: Organization? very little MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200704091007.58535.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200704091549.51805.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <461A9D42.9000008@garzik.org> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.