[geeks] Server Suggestions...

[Mark Benson]

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 08:54 -0500, Dan Sikorski wrote:

> I have several tape drives in plants that have a lot of sawdust and a 
> couple that do a lot of welding.  LTO and DLT have been far more 
> reliable for me than DAT ever was in those environments.

That's good to know. Thanks.

> That said, there are a lot of options for backup to disk and backup to "the cloud" 
> that may fit the bill depending how much data you have, how much it 
> changes and what your recovery needs are

I think currently just short of 10GB but will only get bigger, daily,
constantly changing MySQL database and mission critical pretty much sum
it up.

I was backing up nightly to a set of 5 tapes on each weekday until it
went to the dogs. Backups are taken off site by myself or another
elected member of staff so the solution has to be practically portable. 

I'm not sure I trust 'the cloud' with our data. Any leak would hurt like
hell.

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Mark Benson
http://markbenson.org/blog