Bill Ehlert wrote:
>
> Good suggestion Kevin.
>
> Robert can now choose which backup option to take - tape, CD burner , mobile
> rack / hard drive.
> My experience with backups, over many years, has led me to migrated from 1)
> problematic tape to 2) lengthy CD burning disk jockey sessions, with
> occasional bad burns *ouch*, and finally to 3) fast and reliable removable
> hard drives.
>
> Just remember that hard drives can be mounted on LINUX and other OS's to
> transport files from platform to platform without the need for additional
> backup software that will be needed by tape drives and CD burners. I use my
> own scripts and cron to backup LINUX files and resort to DOS batch files on
> the other OS.
>
> Robert, my suggestion to you is to determine how much data you need to
> backup and choose the right media and what you want to pay in terms of
> hardware, software, and time. Time is money and the more time it takes to
> backup files presents another problem. The longer it takes to do the job,
> the less often you will want to do it. Are you willing to endure long backup
> sessions and play tape or CD jockey?
>
> Bottom line is - Keep it simple and fast. If you can, make it fun - or have
> someone else do it.
>
> Bill
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Fogleman" <snotr0cket@home.com>
> To: <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Inexpensive Tape Drive
>
> | I'd recommend buying a good CD burner and then going with Mondo. Mondo is
> a backup program that not only archives your data to CD, but it
> | also allows you to make the CDs bootable, and it allows you to restore
> your *entire* system with one command that you type at bootup. It is
> | definitely worth checking out, it's what I'm going to be using with the
> server at my dad's law office.
> |
> | http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/
> |
> |
> | --Kevin Fogleman
> |
> | Robert Haeckl wrote:
> | >
> | > Looking to buy an inexpensive tape backup drive either new or maybe from
> | > Ebay. Would like to put a full backup and a week's worth of daily
> | > incrementals on one tape (~8-10 GB ought to be enough). I've been
> | > tarring selected directories onto a zip disk and occasionally burning an
> | > archive, but I would prefer to do full backups. Anybody have
> | > suggestions or preferences? ATAPI vs. SCSI? Seagate vs. HP vs.
> | > OnStream vs. ...? 8mm vs. Travan vs. ADR vs. ...?
> | >
> | > -Robert
Actually, the whole CD disk jockey thing that one would have had to do 1 or
2 years ago has been what has largely made me skeptical of CD-based back
ups. However, with the advent of drives that can burn a full CD in 2 or 3
minutes (such as the Plextor PX-W2410TA, a 24x-write drive reviewed
recently at storagereview.com), it seems like that wouldn't be a problem
any more. Also, while that particular drive may retail for around $210 on
Pricewatch, there are many other reliable (read: low to no "coaster" rate)
drives out there at slower speeds that still write a whole CD in under 10
minutes.
Also, with the low cost of CD-R media, you can make daily backups without
jepordizing any earlier backups that you had, in case you find, say, it's
Thursday, you suffered from data corruption in an infrequently used file on
Monday, but your latest backup was on Wednesday. If you're using tapes or
CDs, you will most likely have a copy of each daily backup so that you can
restore from a known-good copy.
-- --Kevin Fogleman
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