[TriLUG] backing up to hard drives instead of tape?

[Jon Carnes]

We do this.  We have always hung an external drive case off our main file
server for use by folks as a backup area.  When it got full we backed the
data off to tape and wiped the area clean.

Now we have a separate box running IDE RAID-1 with 6 very large IDE drives.
This gives us a huge Backup repository that we can then back-off to tape
during the week.  The cost was very cheap.  The speed is very fast.

Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hedemark" <chris at yonderway.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:23 AM
Subject: [TriLUG] backing up to hard drives instead of tape?


> Is anyone here, in a professional working environment, doing regular
backups
> to removable hard drives as opposed to tapes?  I am considering this
option
> for a mixed Linux/OpenBSD/Windows shop.
>
> Thanks.
> Chris
>
>
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