RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive

2011-08-05 Thread Bob Hartung
mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:27:50 -0500 Subject: RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive Sorry if this is a naive question but what is the benefit of RDX over LTO? We backup sufficient that LTO is the only viable tape option so I'm not

RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive

2011-08-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
basically copying data off of the DPM server to removable 2TB drives on a monthly basis. From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 4:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive Currently at %dayjob% I am backing up about 9 TB... so I had

Re: RDX Removable Disk Drive

2011-08-04 Thread Jonathan Link
Designed to absorb a shock from falling 1 meter onto a concrete surface. I've done it with no ill effects. The same cannot be said of the other 2.5" disks I've dropped from time to time. On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > Anyone know if there is any advantage to RDX over a sim

Re: RDX Removable Disk Drive

2011-08-04 Thread Ben Scott
Anyone know if there is any advantage to RDX over a simple external eSATA enclosure with removable disk trays? It seems like the later would be cheaper, and more available/compatible, while doing the same thing. Or does RDX do something special beyond providing a disk? -- Ben ~ Finally, power

RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Fronk
to move the data. BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 4:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RDX Removable Disk Drive I've been using RDX for years. Disk to disk to RDX backups. On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Bob Ha

Re: RDX Removable Disk Drive

2011-08-04 Thread Jonathan Link
I've been using RDX for years. Disk to disk to RDX backups. On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Bob Hartung wrote: > ** > I've got a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO2 tape drive that has failed and was out > of warranty so I have to replace the whole thing. > > As a possible alternative, I've been looking

RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Fronk
] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive I'm currently using Arcserve and an LTO2 tape drive to backup a remote site. We do use a GFS rotation of 22 tapes. Having worked with RD1000 (which is probably a relabeld Quantum

RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive

2011-08-04 Thread Paul Hutchings
ap vs. an LTO drive/library? From: Bob Hartung [bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: 04 August 2011 9:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive I'm currently using Arcserve and an LTO2 tape drive to backup a remote site. We do use a GFS rota

RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Hartung
lto:b...@btrfronk.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:12:02 -0500 Subject: RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive I recently deployed a Dell RD1000 (quite possibly the same with a different label) for a small client I still support. S

Re: RDX Removable Disk Drive

2011-08-04 Thread Jonathan
This sounds interesting to me as well. I am curious what the capacity and cost are for this type of solution. I just had an 8 slot SDLT Autoloader in one of my branch offices die on me and was considering an HP MSL2024 LTO-5 24 slot library Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Droi

RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Fronk
I recently deployed a Dell RD1000 (quite possibly the same with a different label) for a small client I still support. So far I can't say anything too bad about it. Setup took only a few minutes. I could not use the included software because it did not natively support Exchange without additio