[FX.php List] [OFF] Backup strategy

[Bob Patin]

Steve,

Do you have any links to the Drono failures you mentioned? I'm not  
finding it...

Thx,

Bob Patin
Longterm Solutions
bob at longtermsolutions.com
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On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:

> 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
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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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