Hi Tom,
OK I got it now this is a charity.
If the backups aren't too big and you have a big enough holding disk,
you might consider a strategy where you do some dumps to the holding
disk. For example, I have a config where on Wednesdays, I flush the
holding disk and then do a dump with the tape in the drive, and the rest
of the week I just dump to disk.
If you are just backing up one or two servers, you might consider using
a tool like rsync to mirror the disks to another server off site that is
not web accessible, or ghosting to a removable hard drive.
Lastly, you might consider looking for a corporate sponsor who could put
the $ for the DDS4.
Tom Strickland wrote:
> I've just done some sums:
> total for HP SureStore DDS3i, SCSI card, 20 tapes, delivery, VAT: 998.52UKP
> total for HP SureStore DDS4i etc: 1408.71 UKP
> total for HP DLT1, SCSI card, 20 tapes, delivery, VAT: 2441.415
>
> Well, unless I'm being wildly ripped off somewhere, it looks as though
> DDS is the only affordable solution. Probably DDS3, I'm afraid. I may
> be able to work something out, but at the moment I don't have the
> funds to be able to chip in myself.
>
> Anyway, thanks to all for the advice. Very helpful.
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