I'm looking for a solution to backup a server that has about 40 gig a day of daily backups. Too big for a DDS-4 tape, and DLT/AIT/etc are just too expensive considering the alternatives available. The critical files are already backed up onto tape, I'm looking to expand what is backed up to the not as important stuff.
Anyways, I'm looking at using a pair of 120 or 200 gig Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 or Maxline drives, and rotating the drives offsite, using a script to copy the days backup onto the drive. Replace drives when I drop them, of course. (not that that ever happens. *stares at a dead jaz drive and disks*) The server machine has both firewire and usb 2.0 ports, and has IDE ports available. ASUS P4B533-E. I was looking at the: http://www.vipower.com/product/SmartDisk/35_hdd_smartdisk/vp_9054v.htm combo unit(the 9054V), which has a common carrier, and a Firewire and also USB 2.0 cable. As well, I'd like another unit to use for moving large amounts of files around, and for restoring Windows images from the .tar.gz without having to power down a server to get at the files. Those backup servers have USB 2.0 ports, but no firewire and obviously no IDE available. So I guess my question is, just how much slower is a USB 2.0 or Firewire interface going to be than the native IDE? I usually see around 35-40 meg a second transfers with the bare drive on IDE, what could I expect from 2.0/Firewire? It would simplify things a bit if i didn't have to try and connect this directly to the IDE controller on the MB. If firewire wasn't much faster than USB 2.0, then I could get just the plain USB2.0 cable, saving a few dollars as well. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
