[geeks] Backup software (yeah, yeah, I know)

[Lionel Peterson]

On Apr 9, 2009, at 5:35 AM, "Sheldon T. Hall" <shel at artell.net> wrote:

> Patrick Giagnocavo says ...
>
>> Do you have decent Internet bandwidth?
>
> ADSL of unspecified speed, at the moment.
>
>> Alternatively, get a cheap SSH shell account on any web provider, and
>> use SVN or Mercurial to back up your important files.
>
> I think I'm going to impose on a friend in the States; he's got fairly
> advanced infrastructure for his company, and I expect he could throw  
> another
> disk drive in something and let me use that.  It would probably take  
> days,
> and so what?  The really crucial stuff I can burn to CD/DVD, and the  
> rest
> can take the slow boat

Have you considered a networked HD? You could put gobs and gobs of  
storage in one and backup using CIFS/SMB or FTP, and suitable  
enclosures are fairly cheap... On the order of $40-100, depending on  
drive interface (SATA or IDE), and number of drive bays.

The netgear SC101 is one option, they take two IDE drives, do RAID 0  
or RAID 1 (IIRC), and are pretty cheap ($40 for first-gen hardware).

newegg.com has many similar devices, they are pretty common IMHO.

You could then use any windows backup tool to make the backups to the  
network drive.

Lionel