[FX.php List] [OFF] Backup strategy

[Bob Patin]

Hmm... that's the first I've heard of that. I'll probably still burn  
DVDs sometimes, or take a pair of small drives and trade them back and  
forth from my bank box.

Bob Patin
Longterm Solutions
bob at longtermsolutions.com
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On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Bentech Forums <wisdom at BentechAPS.com>  
wrote:

> 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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