>My backup problem may affect few today, but I think that it will become >more common as hard drives expand their capacity and people use their >computer in greater ways. At present, I think that very large SATA hard >drives of 1 Terrabyte (does Windows XP support these?) or BluRay disks >are the only options for large data size backups. Are there other options?
You are very correct. Most of my clients hit the wall with DVD backup 5 to 10 years ago. The solution was to switch to external FireWire drives. A 20 GB drive then cost about $300. Today that $300 will buy 1000GB. These usually rotate daily and one of the daily drives rotates offsite. Today we have a few more choices like USB2 and eSATA, but the overall strategy is the same. For the first time in many years I'm revising this strategy to incorporate TimeMachine. This will greatly reduce the number of drives in rotation. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
