On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Matthew W. Ross
<[email protected]> wrote:
> How do you accurately measure Volatility? My best guess would be "Not very 
> volatile". Most data is saved and unchanged.

That's fairly easy, IMHO. How much data do you gather in your daily
increment/diff backups, as a percentage of your full backup? You can
measure it in bytes, or in number of files.

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>> But frankly, with only 1tb of data to preserve, it's looking more and
>> more to me like a few 1-4tb USB disks and robocopy might be all you
>> need, along with a spreadsheet and a set of labels to keep track of
>> it.
>
> Agreed. This should not be a difficult solution. For some reason, when you 
> try to do something beyond the robocopy solution and have a "industry backed" 
> solution, things tend to get difficult/expensive.

Which is why I think using Robocopy and a few USB disks is your ideal
solution. No commercial products required, IMHO.

Kurt


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