Looking for Recommendations for a Tape Backup Unot for a 5 1/4" drive Bay

[MSam]

Mike,

You may want to look at Relative Rev Backup (http://www.datamills.com).
Buy three USB disks and rotate them daily. The software will keep as
many daily/weekly/monthly versions as you wish without multiplying the
backup space (incremental forever). It is designed for unattended
operation (automatically clearing outdated backup versions) and can
send an email with the backup log.

Each backup disk will bear backup history that goes months back, each
completely self-sufficient. So it has a considerable amount of backup
redundancy. It also has a built in algorithm to compensate for
non-regular rotation taking, for example, a weekly backup instead of a
daily if the latest weekly was missed.

Joe Rom King
http://www.datamills.com

Thanks Joe, I'll check it out.

Mike

 

[MSam]

Yes, we use DAT and DLT. I haven't bothered with Travan since my 800MB
Conner. But my question was for the other person pushing disk based
backups.

Greg

Disk based bu don't appeal so much to me.

Mike'

 

[MSam]

Shouldn't need anything from nine back.

Mike

And what if you need something from 9 months ago?

Greg

 

[MSam]

He never said that he wanted to keep historical backups. Many
of my clients are accountants, and I take a snapshot of their data
twice a year which I keep on an 80 GByte disk. It's cheap and
the capacity is adequate. Best of all: Retrieval is very fast and
very easy.

going to ghost it then shouldn't need histrocial data.

Mike