On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:19:28PM -0400, John Demme wrote: > We currently use a good tape drive with Veritas software, with daily > differential backups, and full monthlies. Anything less than this is > not acceptable. A hard drive in a USB caddy is fine (I've suggested > this a few times) but the software needs to be more complex. (IE- I > screwed up this file two months ago, and need a copy from just before > that. Restore it. We've done this type of thing in the past.)
Not to be argumentative, but if you have strong backup requirements, it *is* rocket science. There are a lot of amazingly bad conditions that you can run into with backups more complex than disk-based, and Veritas charges the big bucks because they've thought of most of them. For reliable backups, I'd say $300 is cheap. But I don't work there, and *my* boss didn't just tell me to dump Veritas. So take this however you choose. Ben -- Ben Stern UNIX & Networks Monkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] This post does not represent FTI, even if I claim it does. Neener neener. UM Linux Users' Group Electromagnetic Networks Microbrew Software
