On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:29:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 06:00, Haines Brown wrote: > > You say you want a "new backup system," and did not specify it should > > be tape. > > > > I recommend that you consider an external USB drive for backups. It is > > the cheapest method you could use in terms of cost/mb, and does not > > run the danger of proprietary standards (I've got a bunch of old OS/2 > > DAT tapes I'd like to access, but that will not be easy, no longer > > having the commercial software, etc.). With tapes, you are probably > > stuck using the one machine that has the drive, while an external > > drive can be moved to any machine. > The big knock against disks as backup is that he'd need 14(!!) disk > drives (one for each night, so that if "last night's disk" dies, > he can go to the previous night's tape, and recover most of the > data). > Actaully we'd probably risk it with 3 disks - so at any given time we have two full snapshots and then use the third disk for daily backups. So drves would be not such a bad option. Also does anyone know anything about these Mobile Rack Hard Disk bays? -- David Purton dcpurton@chariot.net.au If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? Psalm 130:3
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