If budget's are tight and the business is very small you have to make compromises. You also have to consider ease of use. If this is a place without any sort of IT staff you may be better off with a very simple solution. Tapes don't seem too difficult to us but they might not work well in some situations. small businesses like the one you're talking about can't afford an automated tape magazine at the capacity you need, I think.
Just thinkin' out loud. On Sunday 17 November 2002 19:06, Dustin Puryear wrote: > At 06:20 PM 11/15/2002 -0600, you wrote: > >For less than $8 one can buy a mount that permits easy insertion > >and removal of a hard drive. The hard drive is mounted in a carrier > >that plugs into the mount. Shut down the box, pull out one, put in > >another. So a second drive so mounted could be used to backup, > >then removed and used in another machine, with the backup > >software writing a compressed file to the removable disk. I got a > >few of the little devices and plan to play with them when I have a > >spare hard drive. > > Yes, I work with a guy that loves doing this. He buys these hot-swappable > units and then just puts in a new one each day. (Another common solution > that many here will probably use is to break a mirrored array so that they > get a free and fast backup.) I don't think that is a bad deal. However, I > like the drop test. If I can't drop it without it breaking then I don't > want to use it for backups. I use that measure because, assuming I will > swap out a drive/tape once a day--365 times a year--at some point I am > going to fumble the ball. > > That is just my opinion though. Using multiple hard-drives that can be > swapped out does work for a lot of people! > > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Puryear Information Technology > Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting > http://www.puryear-it.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
