[svlug] low-end tape backup advice

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya christopher...

if you are willing to spend $200 or so for tape drives + cost of media...

personally...i would prefer to buy 2 30Gb drives for roughly the same costs...

use one for full backup + daily...and other disk for weekly + alternating full
backups

if full backups dies and fails... you can still recover from the full
backup on the other disk + incrementals...
	- all compressed files.... usually can get around 1:4 ratio
	( if you have 60Gb...you can save about weeks worth of backups
	-
	- am assuming its not all huge mpeg files

	the script to do redundant backups is relatively easily
	and you dont even need to stick in a tape...

*** if a tape media is bad...you're dead...

c ya
alvin

> Christopher Lee wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm looking for a tape drive to do back up for a small home/office network
> under linux (around 60GB of data total).  I'm on a budget, and have seen
> tempting prices for $200 drives like the OnStream DI30 which claim high
> reliability and 15GB per tape.  
> 
> Any advice or warnings about these lower-end tape drives?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -chris
> 
> 
> 
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