[ale] Low-end tapedrives for SOHO environment

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Jonathan Glass wrote:
> hehe. take it one step further.  By a 3ware or Promise RAID card with
> support for hot-swapping.  Then install the caddy and backup hdd.  That
> way there's no down-time for backups.  That's what I do here for various
> little lab servers.  The lab managers have 2 spare drives, and they just
> yank them out on Friday, put that one in the safe (supposedly) and put
> the other spare in the cage, and voila!  They have full backups every
> week, with 7 or 14 day rotation.  I need to do that math again.  :(
> Jonathan

Just finished reading an article about the high failure rate on 
removable drives.  Of course it's because they get a lot more movement, 
banging around then that drive in your box.

I don't see it folks.  People just get used to pulling the drive and 
tossing it in the trunk, like a tape...


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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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