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TNM
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7th Oct 05 at 09:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

ok im looking at getting a new server but need to back up over 100GB. DDS tapes are more than out of the question
DLT would need two to do 100GB compressed.

Any one got any ideas?

Had thought of back up to another machine with removable drives?
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7th Oct 05 at 09:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

why not get 80/160GB DLT drive and tapes
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link me up.
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ohh found the HP DLT VS160 im thinking 2k plus tho
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just stick in a 120gb harddrive and copy to that
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quote:
Originally posted by TNM
ohh found the HP DLT VS160 im thinking 2k plus tho
TNM
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quote:
Originally posted by SJW
just stick in a 120gb harddrive and copy to that


And just take the case off every time i do a back up? and also down time on the server

Yer that would work.
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7th Oct 05 at 09:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

do you not have a spare HD around over 100gb?

I would just mirror the driver onto another HD (preferably a brand new drive).
£60?

if you dont want to shut the PC down, you could buy a external drive caddy from ebuyer which is usb and do it that way?

[Edited on 07-10-2005 by Bart]
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7th Oct 05 at 09:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Get a removable USB 2.0 hard drive. Job done
Tim
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LTO2 drives will do 400Gb compressed. We've got some new stuff here that'll do 1Tb...

If this is for home use though, why not just use a RAID array or rsync the data to another machine overnight (Windows or Unix server?)....
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7th Oct 05 at 10:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Tim its for work.

Not long been here but their server is so poor.

And its come to a stand still today.

Using 4 DDS tapes to back it up at the moment. Which when your busy is a pain to keep swapping tapes every few hours.

USB HDD to back up 100+GB to it would take 5 or 6 hours at least.

I've used DLT before but for only 40odd GB.

Removable drives are a pain.

Any idea what sort of prices LTO2 is Tim?
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http://www.misco.co.uk/productinformation/~Q65402~/product.htm

Dell do a 8 cartridge autoloader for about 3k (1.6TB uncompressed) I think...
TNM
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ohhh. will look at that.

cheers
Dan B
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Depending on how much you need to backup, how about one of the following?

160GB = http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10058
250GB = http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10059
300GB = http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10510
500GB = http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10511

Up to 100MB/sec transfer speeds on Firewire800 connections, assuming your server will support them (otherwise, it's 50MB/sec on Firewire400, or 60MB/sec on USB2.0). You're looking at about 20 minutes to backup 100GB, at full speed, on Firewire800...

Somewhat cheaper than most options!

 
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