[Gllug] Backup recommendations

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 03:12:19PM -0000, jim at lateral.net wrote:
> I too like my SCSI but if you are going to do back ups seriously consider
> IDE storage arrays apart from the initial drive cost you have no on going
> overheads unlike tape. Two 80GB IDE drives in a mirror array will give you
> redundancy so if the one drive goes you can still recover your data.  The
> solution is very scalable as well.  What ever you decide to do you can
> build a basic storage array for half the price of the tape drive you
> mentioned.

But I do like taking my backup tapes *away* from the machine -- just in case it is
stolen or there is a fire/...

-- 
Alain Williams

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