i believe that this thought has been floated on this list before but ... have you considered big cheap disks? i know that it sounds hokey (sp?) but a usb2 connection with a chain of 120G disks hanging off of it makes for lots of backup space (with wonderfully quick restore).
and yes, it's what i'm doing with my data. fulls/incrementals done daily and cleaned up by a simple cron job. stan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Knowles Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 8:41 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Tape backup jukeboxes? Jukeboxes are going to be very expensive. (We just spec'd out an 8 tape LTO-2 juke for ~$9000 storage space... 1600/3200 GiB) However, used DLT drives on Ebay run ~$50 and can do 20/40 GiB... CJK On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 08:31 -0400, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > My daily backup needs have expanded seriously beyond what a single > 4GiB SCSI DAT tape drive can handle. Is anyone using any sort of tape > jukebox, or larger drive, or something? The current daily backup size > currently maxes out at about 5GiB, but that's likely to continue going > up. :-( > - -- > #ken P-)} > > Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ > Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ > > "Millennium hand and shrimp!" > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iQCVAwUBQqmIKprNPMCpn3XdAQGbJgQAu8ex86yF6gXn1AXrydNUWDhMfj9MnV5S > n/tTDRbfOqpnujGvwwOudyYSMGvDRFgleW/cIsP9sEw1WMbguPrcv/y5Qux8l77i > /+vBmU4ys9OjPXOkTc3COit7LT01RozrCewF9mhf7Hw7f24gE8LnN+vXGZiVWmyQ > iwfg5wPj8bQ= > =Hnab > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
