Mac Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 IN my PC I have 4 x 200Gb IDE drives in JBOD format. How the feck do you back your data up? I have about 150Gb of stuff. I have a 35/70 DLT but its no big enough. Does anyone else get paradroid (sic) about backups or is it just me? I have DVD disks deposited throughout the city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobK Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 You can get a 4 tape AIT2 changer for about £1800. That'll do 400Gb. Or you could buy a 200Gb hard disk and Ghost your PC onto it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted January 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 Which one and where do I get it??? Is it just Ultra2 scsi? Help me, I don't know hardware :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobK Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 Just send me a cheque for £3k and I'll sort it out for you Or look here for the external version. It's LVD SCSI. There is an internal version as well, but I'm not sure what it's meant to go in, since it's definitely not 5.25" bay sized! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted January 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 3k? Erm, no Ta for da link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 Why not just reconfigure the drives to be 4 x 200Gb IDE drives in RAID5 format. OK so you'll loose 200Gb of space but you've still got 600Gb and you won't need to worry about losing data through disk failure. Use your existing DLT to backup important stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted January 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 Yeah, thought about that but I still want an offline backup ... Important stuff? Erm, its all important The AIT drive looks like a goer I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lagoo Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 Bison you reading this.... Backups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bison1379134007 Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 hahahhah feck you! this site is back'd up nightly to TWO offline sites... 'ave it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaunty Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 Guys, we do an offsite backup program, it's intended for businesses and uses private leased lines so its a bit expensive. Have a look at www.vbak.com Do you think there is a market for this product for home users with cable or ADSL, if so what price do you think would be acceptable. It is possible to do it with this software too, we have customers with 100GB of data that are backing up over a 2Mb/s circuit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobK Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 Bearing in mind most ADSL connections upload at 256kbs, I'd say it's a bit of a non-starter. It would take about 3 months to back up 150GB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted January 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 True but how much data actually changes? I.e. to start off a single hit of say 150Gb and then monthly 1Gb ? I'd use that sort of service assuming I could backup the original 150gb using some faster media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisT Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 Mac, you've got lots of money go get yourself a netapp, it'll sort out all your storage / backup needs Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaunty Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 [ QUOTE ] Bearing in mind most ADSL connections upload at 256kbs, I'd say it's a bit of a non-starter. It would take about 3 months to back up 150GB! [/ QUOTE ] That's what I thought at first, don't want to turn this into an advert or anything but it works, you're right it does take a bit of time at first, but the way in which it deals with updated files is excellent, only the part of the file that has cxhanged is sent over the wire, nothing too origional there but what is cool is that duplicate files are only sent once, even if they have different file names, all files are compressed and encypted. We typically see a 100:1 compression ratio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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