I HATE,HATE,HATE tape backups. I'd much rather copy data across the internet to a remote site, or even copy to a local external hard drive and let the client or a designee take it home every night. We had a jukebox tape backup system at the SCSO that supposedly performed a backup each night and sent me an email indicating the job was successful or failed. Hmmm, one day, in a galaxy far, far away, long, long ago (about 15 years) I show up for work and one of my techs says our primary Novell file server was down. I said, okay, replace the drives and reinstall from tape. He reinstalled the OS, then loaded the tape drive and guess what, the tapes couldn't be read! We wound up sending the disk off to OnTrack and $10k later, we had our data back! Tape drives, smape drives.....
Nowadays my clients are not that big and I advise them to purchase a couple of 200 gig usb external drives. They copy their data to the disks and take them with them at the end of the day. All is good. I also offer an internet backup for selected data and that gives them a belt and suspenders approach for not a lot of money. Y'all can have the tapes. Did I mention I HATE tape drives? John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:17 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: RE: [NF] Backups Backups Backups We lost a proposal for doing a second office for a company after working for the first office for several years. they wanted to go with a "big" company. 2 weeks after manually entering all their inventory into the system their hard disk crashed. No backups. good thing they went with a big company. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
