On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, David Purton wrote:
> > > What are debian users recommendations for backups? ... > > > We are a small business and back up about 15GB on a weekly basis, with > > > daily differentials inbetween. > > > > get a similar/identical tape drive ... so all your old archives > > still is readable ... and media is recyclable and usable > > This would be nice, but my brief reseach so far suggests that there is > not much around now that will write to HP Colorado 5GB tapes... > > We don't use tape for long term storage - we keep about a fortnights > worth of files on tape. that makes things tons easier... - get any (DLT) tape drive with the desired capacity ( preferably one that obeys "eject /dev/tape" so ( the tape cannot be overwritten if somebody forgets to change it - eject tape should be the last thing the tape backup does - depending on your budget, that could be anywhere from $200 tape drives to $5,000 drives for roughly the same order of magnitude capacities - exabyte drives are probably better - i'd get 2 cheaper tape drives instead of one expensive one .. even $10,000 tape drives will find its way back home ( to the repair shop ) regularly at the wrong time - my "tape backups" consists of "a handful of big disks (250GBeac) for 1TB backup onto one 1u shelf " - or lots of itty bitty left spaces spread across the world c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]