Melville
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Ok my work is wanting to start backing up things automatically so had a search about and came up with this site...
http://www.allsync.biz/en_index.htm
Where going to be backing upto removable HDD's which will be stored in a fire proof safe. What you guys think of it? For the money I dont think we can go wrong.
Cheers Mark
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Colin
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We just have an old skool tape drive
Backup every day at 4pm and the accountant takes the disc home!
[Edited on 17-03-2005 by Colin]
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--Dave--
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we use floppy disks here
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Melville
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I looked at tape drives but its going to work out alot more expensive. Someone has also recommended that if we use HDD's to change them every 12 monhs as a precaution
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Tim
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How many Gb will you be backing up?
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Melville
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About 10-15 at the moment steadily increasing but we also thought about archieving some of the old stuff which would then be removed.
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Tim
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Yeah, if you can't afford tape you might as well go for harddrives. Only problem is does your server support hot-sway harddisks, or were you thinking more of an external usb2/firewire drive?
Or you could go for something like an Iomega Rev drive...
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Melville
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What does hot-sway drives mean? Were running Server 2003 SBE if that helps?
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Tim
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Sorry about the typo I meant 'swap'...
Well you can't pull a normal harddrive out without turning the machine off...
You'd need a proper disk-controller (i.e. a decent server machine) which supports hot-swap -- you can swap the drives while they're 'hot' (on).
If not it's gonna be a pain in the ass to reboot the server and switch drives...
A lot of USB2/Firewire external drives will do hot-swap, so that might be an option, but don't just use normal internal harddrives in a desktop PC...
[Edited on 17-03-2005 by Tim]
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Melville
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ah good point, never thought about that. It did mention when I was reading on the website that it can be done accross a network so could possible backup all the data on say the servers "x" and "y" drives. Then reboot remote machine and remove drives??
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