[Discuss] Backup options

[noel at natnix.com]

Synetic in town sells hot-swappable IDE RAID drives:

http://www.synetic.net/Synetic-Products/ARAID99-1000.htm

--Noel



On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:43:25PM -0800, Peter Scott 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
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