[Gllug] Backup recommendations

[Martyn Drake]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:40:41 +0000 (GMT) David Damerell wrote:

> On Tuesday, 12 Feb 2002, Martyn Drake wrote:
> >We have a similar thing at work here (however I do much prefer tape
> >backups all in all) where we use IDE RAID to keep nightly dumps from
> >our servers and then every two days we take out the spare, mirrored
> >drive, and insert the third disk.  The contents from the first disk are
> >then built onto the second disk, and so on.  We swap out disks like
> >that every couple of days.  Not ideal, but it's a cheap and cheerful
> >solution.
> 
> Umma. Doesn't the cost of IDE discs at L80 each quickly add up to more
> than tapes would?

Oh, absolutely it does.  However, it's not my idea to do things this way -
I would much prefer a good tape library using DLT tapes and running Amanda
across the network.  Okay, the initial outlay for the library and tapes is
expensive, but in the long term it makes much more sense.  However, I am
just a lowly system administrator.  I've got to do things on what little
resources I've got :(

The only advantage for us for using this IDE mirror system is that we can
at least restore data for customers very quickly.

Regards,

	Martyn

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