[Discuss] Backup options

[Anthony Howe]

Hi Peter,

We have run into the same problem at my work and are
backing up to 250GB USB removable drives.  We have
enough drives for an offsite, and onsite rotation
cycle.

As for network backup Power Measurement (Schneider)
used to use or is still using 
(http://www.infosure.com/company/testimonials.aspx)
the following local company for backup:
http://www.infosure.com/.

Anthony

--- Peter Scott <Peter at PSDT.com> wrote:

> I have beat my head against the problem of backup
> for some time, so 
> maybe some here have ideas.  I have 4 machines on
> the LAN here that I 
> want to back up.  For the past seveal years I kept
> bumping up against 
> the limitations of tape drives and kept upgrading my
> Travan.
> 
> Now I have reached the point where one machine is
> too big for a single 
> 20GB tape.    I've considered the option of backup
> to hard disk already 
> and it may come to that, but since I already have
> RAID-1 on each 
> machine the purpose of a backup is really not crash
> recovery but 
> restoring lost data and/or disaster recovery, in
> which case it makes 
> more sense for it to be able to leave the building. 
> I may not have 
> practised that with the tapes yet, but at least I
> could.
> 
> I know of at least one local company that does
> remote data backup via 
> the net but I never received a quote from them
> because, I suspect, I 
> would have been too small a job for them and it
> wasn't their core 
> business.  It's an attractive option for me if it
> costs under $300/year 
> (about what I was spending on tapes and drives). 
> I'd be storing 0.1 - 
> 0.8 TB total with around 20 GB/week in changes.  I
> would have to come 
> up with a way of encrypting the content and
> integrating with rsync but 
> I'm sure that's doable.
> 
> Does anyone know of an option for (a) network data
> backup (a local 
> company 'cos I want to meet who's handling my data)
> and/or (b) 
> removable media capable of holding at least 40GB
> uncompressed, either 
> of them under around $300/year?  When I looked at
> options for tapes 
> they seem to cost a helluva lot.  And I'm not going
> to sit around 
> feeding DVD after DVD to a hungry drive.  Yeah, I
> know incrementals are 
> smaller but I still don't want to be tied to the
> desk for the fulls.
> -- 
> Peter Scott
> Pacific Systems Design Technologies
> http://www.perldebugged.com/
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