Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >>On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Seann Clark >> >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The other alternative I am looking into is getting a large external case >>> and cramming it full of 1TB hard drives and using that as backup, but I >>> would like a tape system that works well. >> >>This option is worth considering. HD's have many fewer moving parts >>than tapes/drives. Even if the "critical failure" rate is similar, >>the "annoying failure" rate of tape drives is much higher. Which is >>to say, they require a lot more fiddling. >> >>Dustin > > I'll back Dustin up on this one. Switching to a hard drive got rid of 99.9% > of by backup problems. It Just Works(TM). > > -- > Cheers, Gene
There is certainly merit in the hard drive approach, but you can lose two critical properties if you aren't careful: full backups offline (not writable by computer) even while making next full backup. full backups taken to a remote location I have been using LTO-2 for several years and have had little enough trouble, although I can't remember if it is very little or zero. Before that I had DDS-3 and that was occasionally annoying but not that bad. I am firmly in the tape camp at least for corporate use.
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