4/23 Are there any decently priced backed up storage services out there?
Talking about 5 GB.
(sorry, I didn't mean to spark off a debate on IDSG earlier)
\_ buy a 80GB drive. copy/rsync/dump/etc
\_ No. Last time there was a power outage at school, I lost
my harddrive. I'm not stupid. When I say "backed up storage"
I mean...wait for it..... "backed up storage".
\_ dumbass, where was your UPS? --Jon
\_ Buy two drives, and don't connect them to the machine
during normal usage. When you want to perform back up,
connect one and copy the files, disconnect it, then
connect the other one and copy the files, and disconnect.
Then when there's a power outage, you toast one drive as
most. It's a bit of trouble, but it works.
\_ If you really care about your data, you cannot
store you backups on magnetic media, esp. hard
drives. CD, DVD or MO is the way to go.
\_ Well, that's true. What's MO? What did people do
before there were CDRW drives?
\_ MO is Magno-Optical. MO has been around
for years, so have CDs.
\_ 5GB is a pretty trivial amount these days. Is this 5GB of
data per day or a 5GB filesystem? 5GB will fit on a DVD.
incrementals from a 5GB filesystem will fit on cdroms, easily.
You could even do snapshots to a large (cheap) disk as suggested
above. Why pay someone money to do something so trivial. I
could see it if you had 300GB of data for which you wanted
regular backups, but 5GB? --Jon
\_ 5gb? tapes are cheap for this size job. Then you'll have true
'backed up storage' just like you mean. I fail to see why this is
all so difficult for you for such a miniscule data set.
\_ Tape drives that wouldnt be total overkill for this (DLT or
AIT2 or VXA are overkill) such as say dds2, are pretty lame.
\_ Buy a DVD-R or DVD-RW drive. The A104 is ~ $400 , blanks DVDs
are ~ $3. For an outlay of $500 you will have reliable backups
that will last you years if not decades.
\_ Copy it onto soda, hahaha |
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