On Tuesday 22 February 2005 06:18, Jason Miller wrote: >Well I know at least for my application the tape backup solution is > being used for redundancy and save on cost. If a tape goes bad I > have 6 more that are available to me which rotate on a daily basis > automatically using a auto changer. If the hard drive was to fail > on you then you would loose all of the data and have to start from > scratch. Most companies also do offsite storage of tapes as well > but I guess you can technically do both of these with the the > external HDD but the automation process and expense would be > greater. So I would say that its a matter of preference/expense > requirements. Here is a picture of my setup which works great for > me... > >*Windows box's back up to a 250Gig HDD on the local Amanada server > over the network using samba.
rsync is better for that. Much less bandwidth per run. >*Amanda backs up the local partition >*Linux boxes backup directly using the amanda client > > >This way I do not have to restore my windows backups from tape > unless I need more the the last days of data. Helps save time for > me at least. > > > >Jason > >> From: ddaasd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:00:28 +0100 >> To: <[email protected]> >> Subject: tape backup vs hdd backup >> >> Hi, >> I am new to this list. >> I work in a company as admin where AMANDA is implemented as a >> BackUp System, so this list is exactly what I was looking for. >> >> Also I am new to Amanda. I've never configured amanda from >> scratch. Here in the firm, the former admin has configured amanda >> and now I have it working. >> Last days a colleague asked me why are we using tape backup which >> is more complicated and why do we not use an external 250 GB >> USB/Firewire HDD. I didn't know exactly what to say. >> >> I know all companies have tape backup, but which are the real >> reasons for that. Why not to use an external 300 GB USB HDD? >> >> >> What do you think? >> >> >> All the best, >> ddaas -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
