Re: [SLUG] In need of some advice...

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:01:37PM +1000, evilbunny wrote:
> Hello slug,
> 
>   ok any1 offer any advice on this... need a backup solution, on a
>   data backup of about 20gigs a day, however has to be taken off site,
>   and tapes isn't an acceptable solution as the client did accept it
>   as a solution... also can't shut the box down...

Tapes aren't acceptable ... hmm, they must have money to burn then.

>   At this stage some sort of USB (speed isn't an issue) or
>   wireless/off site box else where is the current thinking...

You have a number of options:
	- (multiple) CD-Rs
	- (many?) DVD-Rs
	- triple mirroring
	I'm assuming you are mirroing their data, setup a third mirror of it
	and break that third mirror periodically and move it off site. You'll
	need something which allows drives to be hot-pluged.

	You'll need to realise that there is a high probability of disk failure
	with whatever is doing the triple mirror (taken off-site). Drives, I've
	found, dislike being moved often. I'm not aware of hotplug IDE drives
	so you'll also be looking at SCSI.

Anand


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