FWIW, you could try using a storage manager and archiving your file servers to a bank of storage devices ( tapes, CDROM, other files, etc ). A good storage manager will run encryption & compression on the files it archives, as well as allowing incremental archives. Since you're going to a bank of storage devices, you'll run the archives in parallel. Hope this suggestion helps. Brice >From: "Austad, Jay" <austad at marketwatch.com> >Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >To: "'tclug-list at mn-linux.org'" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >Subject: [TCLUG] backup >Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:19:58 -0600 > >Ok, with all the talk of buying huge hard drives and setting up huge file >servers, does anyone have any suggestions for backing them up? Between me >and my roomie, we have over 300GB of drives with data that we'd rather not >lose. Tape drives are expensive, and the cheap ones only hold like 4 or >8GB >worth of data per tape. Even if I did find a cheap AIT drive, the tapes >are >still about $100 each. > >What is the best solution for this? When I only had 20GB worth of data, >burning it to 30 CD's wasn't too much of pain in the ass to do once a month >or so, but now it's a monumental task. I know we could buy a couple extra >drives and set up some of the volumes using RAID-5, but that doesn't >protect >us against file system corruption, it only protects against a drive >failure. >So, we really do need some sort of backup scheme, but everything I find >seems to get very expensive in one way or another. > >Jay >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com