[Gllug] offsite backup services

[Paul Lee]

Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:14:45PM +0000, Paul wrote:
>> I tend to agree, and have bad experience with tapes.
> 
> I am suspicious of the robustness of USB drives long term, particularly
> if you have some third party collecting them and transporting them to
> secure storage.  Shouldn't matter so much if you have a decent number of
> drives in the backup set.
> 
> Some open source backup software can be configured quite easily to deal
> with removable media.  I know that Amanda supports treating drives as
> virtual tapes, so you could optionally connect a whole bunch of usb
> drives, have the Amanda tape-changer select a new one each night and
> only collect and replace them once a week.
> 
> 
> 
Hmm, I had thought of connecting four USB drives up via a hub. I didn't 
consider Amanda as I was looking at Acronis True Image as it looks 
simple to configure (well the windows workstation version is).

The USB drives I'm using are standard notebook drives, and it was 
cheaper to buy one of those a few weeks ago when my laptop drive died, 
rather than buy a hard drive alone (I'm wondering if USB drives are "B" 
graded laptop drives perhaps?).

Yeh notebooks get moved and knocked around all the time and drives mean 
time before failure must be much worse than a desktop or server 
scenario, so yes the answer is plenty of redundancy.


Paul
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