[FX.php List] [OFF] Backup strategy

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Steve

I have read the exact opposite about Thecus and Drobo too, actually
what was described in that article happend to my MacPro Apple RAID,
so I guess there is something rotten in Denmark in most such camps.

ggt

2009/1/11 Bentech Forums <wisdom at bentechaps.com>:
> Bob,
>
> I think it was discussed in here:
>
> http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/harddrives/index.html
>
> I had heard of some firmware upgrades causing total loss and also some users
> losing all data when adding a new drive.
>
> Steve
>
> On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:09 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
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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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