Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dan wrote: > >> consider that using a removable hard disk might be a better option for you. >> you can put a drive in a hot-swap tray or even in a USB2 enclosure and get a >> few big 500+GB drives. benefits are MUCH MUCH faster backups, MUCH faster >> restores, nearly infinite reuse or rotation or disks, variable capacity so >> you can get 120GB drives now and then when your data grows you can just get >> bigger drives and keep the other drives around for long term archival. >
> You can also use external USB or firewire drives and raid-mirror or > image-copy your archive partition, then rotate offsite. I've been doing > that for a few years with 250 gig drives, keeping an internal pair > mirrored plus 3 that rotate. It takes a couple of hours to raid-sync > the 250 gig partition over firewire with everything running but not > doing backups and I stop backuppc momentarily and unmount the partition > before failing/removing the external disk from the raid. I also keep a > laptop configured so I can mount the external disk and do restores > quickly if anything should happen to the main server. With tape you'd > need a matching drive ready for a disaster situation. > > Now you can get much larger drives - for example, Costco has external > Seagate 750 gig drives for $199 that include usb and firewire modules. > > I'm in the process of building a new server with one of these: > http://www.startech.com/Product/ItemDetail.aspx?productid=SATABAY3BK&c=US > to make stock internal drives swappable and get the slightly faster sata > transfer speed. If I had more time to experiment I might try zfs on > opensolaris or bsd, but I'll probably go with the same scheme of a > 3-member mirror with 2 always present and the third rotated since I know > it works and it is easy to use the removed disk on its own. > > -- > Les Mikesell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I am already running a raid 1 system. I am really seeking the best value in tape backup hardware. Thanks for your replies, Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
