On Monday 13 May 2002 06:08 pm, John Koenig wrote: >I recommend either: > > a) spend REAL BIG money on adequate tape library with at least > 10 8mm tapes (AIT-2, for example). > >or > > b) spend much smaller amount of money on large RAID-5 array of > many many gigabytes using 3ware IDE card and cheap IDE disks... > then back up to disk and forget the tapes.
Thats essentially what we did. We built a machine with 4 160 gig drives on 2 promise controllers in a software raid that gives us 320 gigs of recoverable if only one drive at a time dies, storage. We're using rsync to do the actual data movement, gradually adding the rest of the house to its list. All run by cron of course. Over a 100mbps circuit it only takes a few minutes. Anytime we need a file recovered, its a simple search of that machine name and path to find it, and a simple copyback. >Now go ride! And you won't get so many bugs on your teeth if you wear a full-face helmet. Thats the observations of a nearly 50 year rider, estimated at half a million miles, down twice, one ankle, one rib. But the reflexes are going so I sold the last ride 2 years ago. But I still miss it... -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 98.89+% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a hillbilly
