> i have a backup server with a bunch of high capacity EIDE drives and
> use Amanda. works pretty well and cost effective.

it does not give you so much security as it could unless you turn it off
after doing backup. backup media MUST be offline after backup or it isn't
more secure than having simply mirrored harddrives in machines
 
> --- Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Rick Kelly writes:
> > > I have 2 Exabyte 8700LT 8mm drives (8500 in disguise), and I can
> > squeeze
> > > 10 gigs per tape on these. And the tapes are about $6. But exabyte
> > doesn't
> > > make these any more, just the Mammoth drives with $100 tapes.
> > That's 4 times
> > > the capacity of my drives at almost 17 times the price for media.
> > 
> > I'm at a loss as to what to do about long-term backups too.  My 4-Gig
> > DDS-2 just doesn't cut it any more and the denser backup media is
> > priced ridiculously high (both for the media and for the drive).
> > 
> > For the time being, I've decided that disk-to-disk backups using
> > compressed tar's is the cheapest and easiest way to go.  I can get a
> > 75-gig disk drives for the essentially the same price per gig as
> > 20Gig
> > DDS media ($4/gig for disk, $3/gig for dds-4 media).  When you add in
> > the $1400 for the dds4 drive it looks like an even simpler choice.
> > 
> > I do wish I had a solution for long-term backups, but tape media
> > folks
> > are smoking crack if they think I'll pay anywhere near disk prices
> > for
> > tape.
> > 
> > -wolfgang
> > -- 
> > Wolfgang Rupprecht    <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>    
> > http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
> > Coming soon: GPS mapping tools for Open Systems.
> http://www.gnomad-mapping.com/
> 
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