Do it for free. Throw 'em in your bank's night drop. > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Hummert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: Thursday, September 12, 2002 05:55 PM > Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List > Conversation: Backup Hardware > Subject: RE: Backup Hardware > > > Ah we're a small business. Not cost effective. I looked into > it once and it would eat the majority of my budget > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Peoples > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 3:53 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup Hardware > > > > Certainly not the ideal scenario... that's for sure. > > For starters, What if you lose the tape on your way home and > someone else picks it up? > > For a couple of hundred dollars a year... get the company to > pay for proper offsite storage services. It's their data, so > they should want to be protecting it as best they can. > > MP > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Hummert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 13 September 2002 8:44 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup Hardware > > > He takes it home and puts it back in. I imagine the life of > the HD is pretty short from all that rebuilding. > > I take the tapes home from my office to make sure their > offsite in case of a fire. Any problem with that? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > EXTERN Hlabse Tony (Tek Systems;RBNA/CIT1) > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 3:41 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup Hardware > > > What? That is one of the funniest things I have heard in a > long time. Now I have heard people taking tapes home with > them. What I would like to know when he gets back to work > does he put it back in or does he take one out and put > another in. This is too funny. > > Almost as good as " Hey my System Idle process is at 99% can > someone tell how to make it stop taking up all the CPU cycles?" > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Hummert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 5:21 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Backup Hardware > > > My boss has a friend that has a company that backs up their > servers by taking a spare hard drive from a RAID 5 config > home ever night. Currently we are using a VAX tape drive to > back up our systems. He seems to think that the hard drive > solution sounds like a great idea. I think it's possibly the > worst idea ever created. Besides the constant vibrations, and > temperature changes that the hard drives would have to > withstand could everyone give me some more reasons as to why > this is a bad idea. I think I just need a little ammo from > other admins to help convince him. > > Thanks > Chris Hummert > > ******************************************** > Network Administrator - Albany Agency of Insurance > Webmaster for Noghri.net > http://www.noghri.net > MS Beta tester ID #: 388366 > > Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life > exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried > to contacts us." > > - from Calvin and Hobbes > ******************************************** > >
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