����ve done this on the very cheap and pretty cheap using SATA drives. For the very cheapest, you need a SATA controller that allows hot swap ~$ 40.00. Install a removable drive carriage into an available 5-1/4 drive bay ~$20.00. Schedule your NTbackup to a file location on the disk. Change drives like you would a tape. 5- 1 TB SATA disks ~ $100.00. Total cost <$600. I don���t have to back up as much data as you so I run a Full and 4 incrementals on one disk. I only change disks once a week.
For a little more you could get an ESATA drive caddy ~$250.00 and put a mirror on it and pull your disks whenever you want for archiving and simply keep a few days on the caddy. I guess y�����d need to do one at each location since you coul�����t push that much over a slow network nightly. Do����t forget to format your disks whenever you add a new one. I just realized I did��� Bill From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: When to retire LTO3 tapes Anyone have good suggestions for a basic disk based backup configuration for a small business with 3 distinct physical locations and maybe 1 tb of data at this time? Any good websites with suggestions or guidelines using inexpensive disk (external, usb,etc.) ? Thanks Don K ________________________________ From: John Hornbuckle <[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 2:02:33 PM Subject: RE: When to retire LTO3 tapes I don���t have the answer, but let me just take this opportunity to say that I sure am glad we moved to disk-based backups! J John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us <http://www.taylor.k12.fl.us/> From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: When to retire LTO3 tapes Hi All, How many writes do you do on a LTO3 tape before you archive/replace the media? -Jimmy ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
