Choosing Which Media to Use

You typically back up Solaris systems using:

• 1/2-inch reel tape

• 1/4-inch streaming cartridge tape

• 8-mm cartridge tape

• 4-mm cartridge tape (DAT)

You can perform backups using diskettes, but this is time-consuming and cumbersome.

The media you choose depends on the availability of the equipment that supports it and of the media (usually tape) that you use to store the files. Although you must do the backup from a local system, you can write the files to a remote device.

Table 38-1 shows typical media used for backing up file systems and shows the storage capacity for each.