Re: [opensuse] Tape Drive for personal usage

2007-09-01 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 17:21 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: Hello Guys, Do anyone of you use any tape drive for personal backup? I personally use a 2nd internal hard-drive where I perform nightly backups but twice a year I backup to offline media (DVD-R DL media)...but right now I'm reaching

Re: [opensuse] Tape Drive for personal usage

2007-09-01 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 9/1/07, Hans Witvliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 17:21 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: Hello Guys, Do anyone of you use any tape drive for personal backup? I personally use a 2nd internal hard-drive where I perform nightly backups but twice a year I backup to offline

Re: [opensuse] Tape Drive for personal usage

2007-09-01 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi Jorge, G T Smith wrote: Jorge Fábregas wrote: Hello Guys, Do anyone of you use any tape drive for personal backup? I personally use a 2nd internal hard-drive where I perform nightly backups but twice a year I backup to offline media (DVD-R DL media)...but right now I'm reaching 100 GB

Re: [opensuse] Tape Drive for personal usage

2007-08-30 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Fábregas wrote: Hello Guys, Do anyone of you use any tape drive for personal backup? I personally use a 2nd internal hard-drive where I perform nightly backups but twice a year I backup to offline media (DVD-R DL media)...but right now

Re: [opensuse] Tape Drive for personal usage

2007-08-30 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 30 August 2007 01:51, G T Smith wrote: ... An alternative often recommended here is to use an external USB caddy drive with rsync. I personally have reservations about this approach, but see no reason why it should not be a valid option to consider. I recently became of aware

[opensuse] Tape Drive for personal usage

2007-08-29 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hello Guys, Do anyone of you use any tape drive for personal backup? I personally use a 2nd internal hard-drive where I perform nightly backups but twice a year I backup to offline media (DVD-R DL media)...but right now I'm reaching 100 GB of data...that's a bunch of data to burn! (even if

Re: [opensuse] Tape Drive for personal usage

2007-08-29 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 8/29/07, Jorge Fábregas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Guys, Do anyone of you use any tape drive for personal backup? I personally use a 2nd internal hard-drive where I perform nightly backups but twice a year I backup to offline media (DVD-R DL media)...but right now I'm reaching 100 GB