[dundee] Microsoft tactics - Universities

[Andrew Clayton]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:48:35 +0100 (BST), Lee Hughes wrote:

> yeah, true you can buy 1TB disk for nothing, but you find the
> case of backup is still expensive, and also time restrained, rember,

Yes, not everyone can afford robotic tape jukebox's, however, disk makes
a cost effective backup medium.

> you only  have the nightly cycle to backup data, and yu hit limits
> with network speeds, backup speed etc etc.

This would be true for anyone. Of course you can do fancy things like
real-time'ish data replication and such...

> how many of you lot have more than 1TB at home,then ask

Altogether connected to one machine I have ~1TB

This is not in any special configuration though. What I'd be looking at
is building an external SATA RAID array using eSATA connection.

1 x 4 port eSATA card, 
4 x 500GB SATA drives + 4 eSATA capable enclosures.

Put them into a software RAID 5, bingo 1.5TB at not a lot of money. 

> the question, how many of you have a offline backup? ;-)

Offline... USB hard drive that's not always powered on.

> Laters,
> Lee


Andrew