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 at freerun.com> > Christopher G. Stach II wrote: > > ----- "compdoc" <compdoc at 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > -- Lucas Timm, Goiânia/GO. http://timmerman.wordpress.com (62) 9157-0789 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20100210/0f91f095/attachment-0004.html>