On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > No, you really need to look at a phone bill. Mine comes every month in > a big box which includes frame-relay and a dozen T1s. All this off-site > over-the-wire backup sounds great until you calculate the cost of the > WAN connections - I could buy a new tape drive every month. Backing up > corporate data over DSL or cable lines is not realistic, upstream > speeds are not nearly good enough. Y
So back it up to another part of the building on your local lan. Its highly unlikely the ENTIRE CAMPUS will burn down, and if it does you have far greater problems, as well as a collection of melted tapes. Much as you protest, this is where the industry is going. Disk drives are falling in price each year. Tape solutions always seem to cost as much as the computer that they are attached to. Disk technology is in the field, inexpensive, and robust. Even for small shop something like this might do: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=270 Want network attach: See this one: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=279&language=en -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
