On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:21, Iñaki Martínez wrote: > Hi Ramin Motakef!!! > > > > Benefits: > > > - Cheaper: RAID Controller (300?) + Drive Bay (200?) + 4 drives (100? > > > pro 60GB) are about 900?. This is more than competable with DAT/DDS3 > > > and even more with DLT tape drives. > > > - Faster and easier when restoring. Obviously, just mount it. > > > - More capacity per medium. Splitting up across several media makes > > > things complicated. > > > > We use a (cold) removable IDE Drive for Backups of our Servers for > > some months now and are very happy with it. Setup is as follows: > > > > 2 removable 120GB IDE-Drives, one build in a normal Office PC (+ extra > > network cards), one at home. > > Drives are changed every week. > > What software do you use to do backups with IDE Drives?? > > I am going to buy a 3ware card and 4 IDE drives (160 GB) to do a RAID 5. > > What software (free or commercial) can i use????
We're using rsync to mirror a hot drive in our main server to a cold drive (one that is only mounted when backing up, and is briefly mounted read only for per file restoration). You could easily set up a backup machine running an rsync daemon and have your client machines sync to that by the same means. John
