> > Backing up to a couple of USB harddrives is not a decent backup > > solution (unless you use about 25 of them per year!).
I have been using external USB HDD units for backups for several years now, and rant about how I do it once in a while. I do have a duplicate set of HDD units (28 in total), one set of 14 HDD units is kept off site and rotated with my on-site HDD units about once each month. On my Servers I retain a few R-TT R-DriveImage (www.r-tt.com) file sets on the USB HDD units. Then, using SyncBack (www.syncback.com), I run a full file-by-file backup weekly, and a differential file-by-file backup the remaining days of the week. For my workstations I perform a Norton Ghost or Norton Save & Restore image once each week, retaining the most recent 4 image file sets, one weekly SyncBack full file-by-file backup, and the remaining 5 days of the week I do differential file-by-file backups. The most I am at risk of losing is one month of files if the house burns to the ground. I used to do tape backups until about 3 years ago. But with all the machines I have, and all the data being backed up, I could not get all backups completed by the time I started my workday, and rotating tapes and managing multiple tapes per backup, had become a nightmare in comparison to high capacity USB HDD units. If I do begin to get a bit paranoid about losing data mid-month I could always begin to backup the USB HDD units to tape, but thus far I have not had the urge to do so - despite having all the equipment and tapes to do so. Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Bourke > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 8:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] Backups Backups Backups > > > Paul Hill wrote: > > Backing up to a couple of USB harddrives is not a decent backup > > solution (unless you use about 25 of them per year!). > > > Well, an Ultrium tape drive is about 2 grand, then you have to buy x > number of tapes. You can get an awful lot of USB hard drives for that > sort of dough! > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
