Hi Lord, on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 18:25:32, you wrote: > (it's an Iomega ditto QIC-80 parallel port floppy-protocol tape drive). I > also bought a very low quality DVD+RW drive (MagicSpin non-MMC, non-Ricoh -
Beh. A faster solution with similar security to either one would be a
tar -cf/dev/null /
If you're concerned mainly about FS errors, accidental deletes and such,
I'd also suggest a second harddrive. It's relatively cheap, very fast,
random-access and pretty secure. If on top of that you want protection
against things like overvoltage, lightning etc. that might fry your
whole system, you need some removable media like MO or tape. I used a
DAT streamer for quite a while. DAT doesn't have the best tapes either,
they wear out pretty quickly, but both tapes and drives are cheap
nowadays and more than adequate for your amount of data. MO has a good
reputation too but I don't have any experience with it. It seems a bit
out of fashion today so you may be able to get a good deal on a drive.
cheers!
Matthias
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