On Feb 5, 2008, at 09:24, Dan Coutu wrote: > They used to use 30Gb tapes but now that the servers are bigger > this doesn't work. Minimum capacity for the smallest system is 80Gb > and the largest system requires ~200Gb to backup everything onto a > single medium. I've tried to use the Iomega REV autoloader as a > solution and it sort of but not quite works. In other words it > isn't reliable, you can't count on it to work every single time. > The thing seems tempermental in that it sometimes wedges the SCSI > bus. Not useful.
My goodness. I saw exactly the same situation at another shop. Small techno-world :) My suggestion to them was to use a RAID-10 with one half on removable disks and swap among 3 mirror sets, keeping two offsite, or at least one in transit. e.SATA lets you use S.M.A.R.T so you can know if a drive is ailing. I then run rsnapshot over these. rsync3 with the renamed-files patch is the cat's pajamas. This is basically how I have my internal backups structured. That job spec is still hung up in purchasing or something... -Bill ----- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
