I purchased one of the drive caddies for about $9 from Directron.com (on sale).
EC-UST25 Currently on sale for 10.99, regular price $12.99
Also, ship it to a commercial address and save some $$.
><> ... Jack
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23
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It seems to me that the main drawback to using removable hard drives as backup
media is that they are fragile, compared to other, more traditional, backup
media. If you drop one onto a hard surface, it is unlikely to survive.
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On 08/17/2010 04:18 PM, Richard Thomas wrote:
It's hard to find a valid argument against using hard-drives over tape.
Howeber, there's something about the idea of how little there is to go
wrong with tape, no electronics etc. The only problem is that what there
is there to go wrong seems to go
On 8/17/2010 4:10 PM, Howard White wrote:
A couple of months ago at the monthly NLUG meeting, I showed a 2.5"
drive caddy that mounts in a 3.5" bay that allows me to insert and
eject a naked (no frame or nonsense) 2.5" SATA drive. There are
similar caddies available for 3.5" drives but I fin
On 08/17/2010 03:21 PM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
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On 8/17/2010 9:32 AM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
Of course, likely tape's days are numbered (except for specialist
applications). With reliable media, you may as well stream encrypt the
whole thing. Then again, y
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> On 8/17/2010 9:32 AM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
> Of course, likely tape's days are numbered (except for specialist
> applications). With reliable media, you may as well stream encrypt the
> whole thing. Then again, you lose the ability to seek and then we're
> bac
On 8/17/2010 9:32 AM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
Seems if that was the way you did backups, you would probably have deeper
problems. Backups of system files should be in different backups for
data. How often do you change the system, and how often should you backup
data?
It's kinda hard
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> On 8/17/2010 7:54 AM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
> >
> > Need to point out proper unix tools do 1 thing and do it well.
> >
> > Tar is very happy punting its creation to STDOUT. You could then do
> > any number of pipes to throw the data through encryption apps that
On 8/17/2010 7:54 AM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
Need to point out proper unix tools do 1 thing and do it well.
Tar is very happy punting its creation to STDOUT. You could then do any
number of pipes to throw the data through encryption apps that take STDIN
as a source. I believe there are pl
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> Encrypted tar!! Now there is a thought, but pity be to the sysadmin
> without a plan for keeping track of the keys!! First thought of the
> command name was star, as in secure tar. Gee, you think someone else
> mighta grabbed _star_ first; without even thinking about
On 08/16/2010 09:20 PM, Michael Chaney wrote:
Odd, I've been using Duplicity for a couple of years now to back up to
S3, never knew it was considered beta. It works great.
Michael
Now you tell us!! :)
Howard
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> I get a daily blurb from the InformationWeek / UMB Techweb crowd called
> "Dark Reading" that discusses security breaches, malware and other
> entertainment... Today's lead item mentions six healthcare industry data
> breaches that could have
On 08/16/2010 05:01 PM, David R. Wilson wrote:
I decided many years ago after reading 18 tapes and finding 3 that
worked that were stored over 2 years previously that I really didn't
want a repeat of that fiasco. It is even more scary when backups have
to be encrypted and reliable.
If I was go
te.
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Need to watch keeping the keys on USB in a safe deposit or fire box too.
We need to at least power up the keyfobs every year or so, t
Need to watch keeping the keys on USB in a safe deposit or fire box too.
We need to at least power up the keyfobs every year or so, to allow the hardware
to 'refresh' the flash. It does erode over time, and the odds are
high that if you
just toss it in the safe deposit box that it may not be reada
Some of this system was put into place before I got here, but we backup
our data server to an external USB hard drive, which gets rotated out
weekly & lives at my house in the mean time. As a backup to the backup,
I repurposed an old web server into a FreeNAS box, located in another
part of the lib
I decided many years ago after reading 18 tapes and finding 3 that
worked that were stored over 2 years previously that I really didn't
want a repeat of that fiasco. It is even more scary when backups have
to be encrypted and reliable.
If I was going to backup something now that has any importan
I get a daily blurb from the InformationWeek / UMB Techweb crowd called
"Dark Reading" that discusses security breaches, malware and other
entertainment... Today's lead item mentions six healthcare industry
data breaches that could have been prevented with a little planning.
They tossed out th
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