Re: Remote storage

From: Moe Trin (ibuprofin_at_painkiller.example.tld)
Date: 04/13/05 

Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:05:26 -0500

In article <d3fhs7$ss5@dispatch.concentric.net>, winged wrote:

>I don't use an online solutions, though I know several services allow 1
>GB storage where one could achieve with data snips less than 10MB
>segments via e-mail mechanisms if one were creative. My home pipes just
>don't support net storage solutions well.

Catastrophic storage (fire, earthquake, flood) means the backups are
off-site in a different environment. For ordinary backups (magic smoke
escaping, power glitches causing data errors, cosmic rays, etc.), having
a home network and backing stuff up to different systems makes a lot of
sense. We have nightly network backups to alternating systems with large
disks. A checksum comparison of files and directories provides enough
confidence that the backups ran correctly. The only other thing to check
is that you can use the backups to actually restore. A lot of people
seem to forget that. The actual backup only takes a few minutes over a
100MB network. It's a heck of a lot faster than backups to tape.

>Digital photo files and such are still going either to DAT or to DVD-RW
>drive as I am finding video editing and still pics eat drives for lunch.
>The DVD-RWs work fairly well for most video projects.

Yeah, it's amazing how much storage is needed. Ten years ago, someone
needing a 2 Gig tape for home was "strange". The latest computer I
bought for home has a Gig of RAM, and a 250 Gig drive. That means I've
got to buy a couple more drives for the backup servers.... sigh

        Old guy

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