On Feb 5, 2008 9:24 AM, Dan Coutu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a small client (30 employees) using Linux servers that is > struggling to find a robust and reliable backup solution that provides > bare-metal recovery capability without costing over $10K.
tar provides bare-metal recovery and is free and reliable. :) > The primary challenge so far has been hardware. They used to use 30Gb > tapes but now that the servers are bigger this doesn't work. You can get a LTO-4 drive from Dell for $3200. 400 GB native (uncompressed) capacity. Tapes are around $110 ($0.275/GB). Alternatively, the "external hard drive" solution is popular. With 750 GB disks going for $160 ($0.213/GB), they're cheaper than tape, even with the cost of the enclosure. And eSATA can be pretty darn fast. And then you just need "rsync" or even "cp" instead of tar. > I've tried to use the Iomega REV ... In my experience, IOMega makes crap and always has. I know this because I own several of their products, and have worked with hundreds more. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/