[geeks] The Wisdom of the Collective: Removable media
Kurt Huhn
artisan at k-huhn.com
Tue Sep 17 15:08:58 CDT 2019
I use a SSD in an Amazon Basics USB enclosure with cron'd rsync. Brutal
and low rent, but it works for my purposes.
Having used a bunch of enclosures over the years, I've found the Amazon
Basics line to be very dependable, on par with LaCie.B But my
requirements these days are minimal, having migrated all my sites and
mail to a hosting provider.
--K
On 2019-09-17 14:08, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> So. For quite a few years now I've been using LTO tape for backup.
> Most recently a SAS LTO-4 drive. And after being with it through four
> generations of LTO tape technology over nearly 20 years, I'm getting
> really tired of LTO's shit.
>
> Well ... OK, I'm getting tired of the cleaning and maintenance issues of
> a standalone external tape drive and my otherwise-excellent backup
> software's increasingly poor handling of standalone tape drives. And
> I'm looking for a new backup storage solution. With my monthly full
> backups currently over 1.6TB, I'd like to be able to just plug in a
> cartridge drive of some kind or other and not have to dick around with
> tape changes and tape drive errors, I'd like to have per-volume capacity
> at least in the 4TB range so that I'm not replacing media again next
> year or the year after when my backups pass 2TB, and ideally I'd prefer
> solid-state media. (But FAST solid-state media, say SSDs; flash cards
> and anything USB need not apply.)
>
> And I'd prefer it be able to live in my server racks, but that's not
> strictly a necessity. On the other hand if it lives in my workstation I
> alrwady have a SAS controller available (an LSI SAS2008 Fusion-MPT SAS-2).
>
> So does anyone have any particular favored *hardware* for this sort of
> removable-drive role? I desperately need a better solution here.
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