Let your backup array of hard drives falling down in the floor and try to restore something later... :p
I haven't this problem with my LTO/DAT tapes. I don't like backups in hard drives too.
2010/2/10 Benjamin Franz jfranz@freerun.com
Christopher G. Stach II wrote:
----- "compdoc" compdoc@hotrodpc.com wrote:
Combined with disk based network storage, tapes have a place in IT.
Yes, archival storage.
Concur. You can buy 1TB RAID rated SATA drives (with a 7 year warranty) for $150 US from Newegg.
The strategy I use is build two machines, one on-site and one off-site, and use an rsync over ssh network back up strategy. Using nothing except off the shelf you can have a complete RAID6 multi-terabyte on and offsite backup system with 'deep' retention going back a year ( 7 x daily, 5 x weekly, 3 x monthly, 2 x quarterly, 2 x semiannual) for only two or three thousand dollars net and no consumables or manual intervention except when a new machine is added to the to be backed up or if a drive fails.
-- Benjamin Franz
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