John:
Travan is good, but it is slow and the tapes have a high failure rate and can't be
reformatted, at least on my HP 8GB SCSI drive.
Also, if there is 30GB, he would have to swap tapes, that means watching the drive and the
time consumption. That's why I suggested AIT. Its a 50GB tape so tapes won't need to be
swapped and is very fast.
Dave
| On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:22:46 -0700, "Jeremy"
|
| >Hello. I'm looking into different types of backup to help protect myself
| >from data loss caused by virus infections.
| >
| >What would you all recommend as the best way to backup about 30 gigs of
| >data? Are there external Iomega drives that can handle that size? Would a
| >spare hard drive be better? Thank you.
|
| There are really two options. Travan tape backup is good but you are
| only going to get a physical 10Gb per tape (maybe 12-15 compressed).
| If you can handle that, great. DLT tape is good but the drives tend
| to have serious prices . You can pick up a workable (new pull)
| Travan IDE tape drive on eBay for around $40, tapes cost around
| $20-$25 each (also on eBay).
|
| Failing that get one of those hard disk drive bays that lets you plug
| an entire IDE HDD in from the front, and a couple of 40Gb HDDs, and
| copy to those. They aren't hot swappable, as a rule. These should
| cost you about as much as a new tape drive anyway and would be a lot
| faster.
|
| You could go DVD but the two HDDs would probably be cheaper, and no
| removable storage cost.