[FX.php List] [OFF] Backup strategy (Drobo)

[Bob Patin]

Well, I've been poking around, and did find a couple of incidents on  
the Amazon site where there were drive failures that sound like  
something that was wrong in firmware. However, the rave reviews far  
outweigh those problems, and until I'm convinced otherwise, I still  
think it's an amazing device.

Going with any type of RAID is out of the question; it takes too much  
time to reconfigure it every time a change needs to be made--with the  
Drobo it takes as long as it takes to insert a drive into a slot.

Perhaps I came along at the right time, I don't know, but my Drobo has  
been flawless from day one. I know that a lot of professional  
photographers use them now; one in particular pairs Drobos together so  
that he does have a bit more safety, but I won't do that. I think what  
I'll do is what I mentioned, I'll take two small HDs and start  
swapping them in and out of the bank. It's just too much trouble now  
with a lot of web servers, to burn DVDs and then not know until too  
late whether they're properly written.

Bob Patin
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On Jan 11, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Bob Patin wrote:

> 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
> --
> sent from iPhone
>
> 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
>> bob at longtermsolutions.com
>> --
>> sent from iPhone
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>> Bob Patin
>>>> Longterm Solutions LLC
>>>> bob at longtermsolutions.com
>>>> 615-333-6858
>>>> http://www.longtermsolutions.com
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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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