Interesting info on the RD1000. I'm hoping they've improved a bit over the last couple of years, in regards to the drive letter issue. We've got our Dell rep sending us a server with an internal and an external RD1000 for us to play with, so we'll see if it plays nice with our CommVault software.
>>> "Angus Scott-Fleming" <[email protected]> 3/22/2010 2:55 PM >>> On 22 Mar 2010 at 9:27, Joseph Heaton wrote: > Anyone have any experience with Dell's RD1000 system? We're going to be > changing out servers in our field offices, and the removable drive systems > seem like a much more cost-effective backup solution for these small offices > than a tape drive. We're also looking at a version of this system where we > can have 2 drives, for one or two of our larger offices. > > Any input as far as personal experiences, ease of use, etc would be much > appreciated. I ran into one client 2-3 years who had one, they had many problems with it. Since it's a USB drive, Windows treats it as a temporary drive. Backup systems don't like it when the drive letter can change. I suppose that by using the USBDLM utility I posted a few days ago you might be able to overcome that problem now. One of my other clients has a CMS Velocity2 eSATA external system which is a dual-drive system. One drive acts as the primary backup drive and one is a mirror copy. You back up from the server to the primary and the CMS system mirrors it. You remove the secondary and take it offsite, rotating in another drive which is then mirrored from the primary. Since it's eSATA, you don't have the drive-letter issues that my other client had with the RD1000. Velocity2 Redundant Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions from CMS Products http://www.cmsproducts.com/product_velocity2_raid2.htm It just takes standard SATA2 drives, no special carrier mount needed, and it's hot-swap. The client has an armored case for each off-site spare drive. HTH Angus PS I'm looking at backup systems for remote offices which will mirror offsite back to the home office. That way we get the advantage of offsite backup without the personnel cost of having someone remote swapping drives and carrying them offsite, and we don't pay MozyPro or AmazonS3 or Carbonite's per- gig charges. Still haven't settled on something yet. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
