[SAGE-AU] Re: [Talk] Reality check...

[Rohan Durrant]

For home small office etc, a IDE drive backup seems like a damn good idea. 
I am currently waiting for my USB2/Firewire external case with removable 
disk caddy to arrive for my home office. 

On the other hand, backing up 500GB-1TB onto IDE doesn't really thrill me :) 
I much prefer my tape library and DLT tapes. 

Network Appliance now have a device that is tapping into this IDE backup 
market though.... unfortunately it is slightly out of my requirements :) 
Their NearStore appliance is pretty much a standard NetApp filer head, with 
disk trays that convert IDE-SCSI/FC then down to the filer head. 

http://www.netapp.com/products/nearstore/r100_ds.html

12TB starting.... now what could I backup there ? 

Better clear out some space for a rack in the machine room :) 

Rohan 


On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 02:10:34PM +1000, Joe McKinnon wrote:
> Well the disk idea is useable, however it defeats the off-site idea of
> backups.  Maybe a mirrored or rsynced array hanging off 2KM of fibre to
> another site might be more useful....where you rsync to a different diskset
> each night, without swapping drives.
> 
> Also the other issue with using drives - what about the little blighter that
> spins all the time, but the first time you power it off, never wants to come
> back to life. :-)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel O'Connor" <darius at dons.net.au>
> To: "Steve Jenkin" <sjenkin at pcug.org.au>
> Cc: "talk auug" <talk at auug.org.au>; "sage-au" <sage-au at sage-au.org.au>;
> "acscanberra" <acscanb-l at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2002 1:53 PM
> Subject: [SAGE-AU] Re: [Talk] Reality check...
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 13:10, Steve Jenkin wrote:
> > > I had a thought & wanted a Reality Check on it.
> > > It seems too obvious not to have been thought of before, so what's the
> > > catch??
> > >
> > > IDEA:
> > > The cost of DLT & LTO tape media is ~$3/Gb.
> > > The cost of commodity IDE drives is ~$1-2/Gb.  IDE enclosures with
> > > either Firewire or USB are cheap & readily available.
> >
> > Err..
> > IDE costs around $3/Gb too.
> >
> > IDE is also bulkier, and isn't as drop resistant as a tape :)
> >
> > Disks are also more static sensitive.
> >
> > --
> > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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