[Discuss] Backup options

[Peter Scott]

Thanks for the responses on this thread.  After some research I'm going 
to go with the option below.

At 01:35 PM 11/6/2006, Anthony Howe wrote:

>Hi Peter,
>
>We have run into the same problem at my work and are
>backing up to 250GB USB removable drives.  We have
>enough drives for an offsite, and onsite rotation
>cycle.
>
>As for network backup Power Measurement (Schneider)
>used to use or is still using
>(http://www.infosure.com/company/testimonials.aspx)
>the following local company for backup:
>http://www.infosure.com/.
>
>Anthony
>
>--- Peter Scott <Peter at PSDT.com> wrote:
>
> > I have beat my head against the problem of backup
> > for some time, so
> > maybe some here have ideas.  I have 4 machines on
> > the LAN here that I
> > want to back up.  For the past seveal years I kept
> > bumping up against
> > the limitations of tape drives and kept upgrading my
> > Travan.
> >
> > Now I have reached the point where one machine is
> > too big for a single
> > 20GB tape.    I've considered the option of backup
> > to hard disk already
> > and it may come to that, but since I already have
> > RAID-1 on each
> > machine the purpose of a backup is really not crash
> > recovery but
> > restoring lost data and/or disaster recovery, in
> > which case it makes
> > more sense for it to be able to leave the building.
> > I may not have
> > practised that with the tapes yet, but at least I
> > could.
> >
> > I know of at least one local company that does
> > remote data backup via
> > the net but I never received a quote from them
> > because, I suspect, I
> > would have been too small a job for them and it
> > wasn't their core
> > business.  It's an attractive option for me if it
> > costs under $300/year
> > (about what I was spending on tapes and drives).
> > I'd be storing 0.1 -
> > 0.8 TB total with around 20 GB/week in changes.  I
> > would have to come
> > up with a way of encrypting the content and
> > integrating with rsync but
> > I'm sure that's doable.
> >
> > Does anyone know of an option for (a) network data
> > backup (a local
> > company 'cos I want to meet who's handling my data)
> > and/or (b)
> > removable media capable of holding at least 40GB
> > uncompressed, either
> > of them under around $300/year?  When I looked at
> > options for tapes
> > they seem to cost a helluva lot.  And I'm not going
> > to sit around
> > feeding DVD after DVD to a hungry drive.  Yeah, I
> > know incrementals are
> > smaller but I still don't want to be tied to the
> > desk for the fulls.
> > --
> > Peter Scott
> > Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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