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Bob,

The Drobo is nice but I have read about a few catastrophic failures so  
make sure that you also have an additional off-site backup of some kind.

You might look at one of the RTX drives from Wiebetech.com which allow  
you to quickly swap hard drives so that you can easily take a backup  
drive off-site.

Steve

On Jan 9, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Bob Patin wrote:

> Well, that's totally true; I hadn't thought about just taking a  
> 500GB drive, of which I have several sitting unused, and just  
> copying to there as a 3rd backup, and then when I've filled it, just  
> deleting the oldest ones.
>
> At 10GB per backup, I could put 50 before I have to start bleeding  
> off the old ones; I may just do that instead of worrying about DVDs  
> for this machine...
>
> Or I may just bite the bullet and buy another Drobo and use it for  
> my web servers instead of DVDs. I have 7 web servers, a couple of  
> which have huge web documents folders... but with a Drobo filled  
> with 4 1.5 TB drives, I could do a LOT of backing up before I'd have  
> to start deleting the old stuff... :)
>
> Any downside to my thought, other than that I have to throw away the  
> older backups (which isn't a problem with web site backups)?
>
> BP
>
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> On Jan 9, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>
>> I use FreeAgent Extreme for that purpose, it's alot cheaper than
>> spending time in Toast.
>>
>> ggt
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